{"id":2432,"date":"2011-11-29T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/11\/icc-warrant-for-laurent-gbagbo\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:10:37","slug":"icc-warrant-for-laurent-gbagbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/29\/icc-warrant-for-laurent-gbagbo\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC &#8216;warrant for Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>29 November 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>17:10 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57013000\/jpg\/_57013878_013411511-1.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Laurent Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, after his arrest on 11 April 2011\" \/><span>Laurent Gbagbo has been detained since his arrest in April after he refused to stand down as president<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for ousted Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, his lawyers have said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gbagbo has been under house arrest since April following a four-month stand-off with President Alassane Ouattara.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gbagbo had refused to accept defeat after elections in November 2010. About 3,000 people died in unrest afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with looting, armed robbery and embezzlement.<\/p>\n<p>He could be sent from the Ivory Coast to face trial in The Hague within hours, one of his lawyers told the French news agency, AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gbagbo, who was in power for 10 years, is being held in the northern town of Korhogo.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer request comes just two weeks before legislative elections are due in the Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC&#8217;s chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo visited Ivory Coast in mid-October to investigate the country&#8217;s post-election violence.<\/p>\n<p>He met victims as well as government and opposition representatives.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, Mr Moreno-Ocampo promised that his investigation would be &#8220;impartial&#8221; and said he would focus on three to six people who shared the biggest responsibilities in the post-election crisis.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 November 2011 Last updated at 17:10 GMT Laurent Gbagbo has been detained since his arrest in April after he refused to stand down as president The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for ousted Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, his lawyers have said. Mr Gbagbo has been under house arrest since April following a four-month stand-off with President Alassane Ouattara. Mr Gbagbo had refused to accept defeat after elections in November 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICC &#039;warrant for Laurent Gbagbo&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/29\/icc-warrant-for-laurent-gbagbo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"ICC &#039;warrant for Laurent Gbagbo&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 November 2011 Last updated at 17:10 GMT Laurent Gbagbo has been detained since his arrest in April after he refused to stand down as president The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for ousted Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, his lawyers have said. 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