WORLD BRIEFING / NIGERIA
A Nigerian military court has sentenced 27 former United Nations peacekeepers to life in prison after they were convicted of mutiny, which involved protests that officers had stolen their extra U.N. pay, their lawyer said.
The soldiers of the 14th Nigerian Battalion were among more than 800 rank-and-file soldiers who protested last year after they did not receive their U.N. allowances for taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Liberia. Their attorney vowed to file an appeal at the Nigeria appellate court to challenge the judgment of the court-martial in Akure, Ondo state.
“The soldiers have the legitimate rights to protest the illegal diversion of their allowances,” the attorney said.
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