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GAMBIA COURT HANDS DEATH PENALTY TO COUP PLOTTERS
July 15, 2010: at a Gambian court, Judge Emmanuel Amadi sentenced eight people to death for plotting to overthrow the country's government. Six Gambian army officers, including the former chief of defence staff and former director of the national intelligence agency, were convicted of treason alongside a local businessman and a Gambia-based Lebanese businessman. (Sources: Reuters, 15/07/2010)
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