Burkina Faso: the trial of the alleged perpetrators of the Sankara assassination postponed to October 25

Barely opened on Monday, October 11, 2021, the trial of the assassination of Thomas Sankara was postponed to October 25 to allow defense lawyers to further consult the file.

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The trial of the alleged perpetrators of the murder, during the coup d'état of 1987, of the Burkinabè revolutionary Thomas Sankara, then president of the country, was postponed this Monday to October 25, at the request of several defense lawyers.

  • Burkina Faso

  • Thomas sankara

  • Justice