Ivory Coast's Ex-First Lady, Along With Hundreds Of Others, Granted Amnesty

On Monday, one day before Ivory Coast celebrated 58 years of independence, the West African country's leader announced that he is granting liberty of another kind to hundreds of Ivorians. Simone Gbagbo was convicted in 2015 of crimes ranging from organizing armed gangs to "attempting to undermine the security of the state," though she was later acquitted of crimes against humanity in a separate trial. Soro’s rebel movement claims credit for helping Ouattara come to power after Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in an election, triggering the short but brutal 2011 civil war for which Laurent Gbagbo is currently on trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The government of Ivory Coast grants amnesty to former First Lady Simone Gbagbo a week after the Supreme Court of Ivory Coast [fr] overturned her acquittal for crimes against humanity.