World IN BRIEF : NIGERIA : Pressure Mounts to Halt Coup Sentences
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Foreign governments and human rights activists increased pressure on Nigeria’s military rulers to quash sentences against alleged coup plotters and stop death sentences from being carried out. Newspapers say former deputy head of state Maj. Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and 13 others were sentenced to death in a trial shrouded in secrecy since the military government said it had uncovered a coup plot in March. Ex-head of state Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and 11 others reportedly received life sentences.
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