A court in Comoros has sentenced Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, ex-president of the East African country, to life in prison for “high treason”, regional media reports and the AFP news agency have reported. According to Tanzania Daily News, Sambi, who is a political rival of incumbent President Azali Assoumani, was sentenced by the State Security Court, a special judicial body whose rulings cannot be appealed, after he was convicted of selling passports to stateless people living in the Gulf. “He betrayed the mission entrusted to him by the Comorians,” public prosecutor…
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