ICC sentences Malian Islamist to 10 years over Timbuktu repression


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2024

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A Malian Islamist who helped run the police force imposing sharia law on Timbuktu after the city was captured by militants in 2012 was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday.

Judges said Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz, 47, had played a key role in the Islamic police set up by the Ansar Dine Islamist group in the city on the fringe of the Sahara Desert.

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