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Antoinette Kongnso Gohla
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Antoinette Kongnso, Baby To Serve Six-month Sentence, While Military Court Investigates
Although the 30-year-old appeared in court for the first time since her arrest, the case was dismissed from the Buea High Court for a second time, with presiding Judge, Anne Afong, saying it is legal for Kongnso and her week-old baby to remain in pre-trial detained until April 2022, when the magistrate at the Military Tribunal in Buea must have finalised investigations.
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Torture, Imprisonment Of Heavily Pregnant Woman in Buea: Lawyers Take Central Prison Superintendent, Gendarmerie Commander To Court
A group of lawyers, led by Barrister Edward Lyonga Ewule, have taken the Gendarmerie Legion Commander in Buea and the Superintendent of the Buea Central Prison to court over the torture and imprisonment of a heavily-pregnant woman, Antoinette Kongnso Gohla, on flimsy excuses that she dated the now dreaded separatist commander, ‘No Pity’, five years ago. The case comes up in Buea on October 22, 2021.