{"id":234670,"date":"2026-05-28T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-activist-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-inciting-insurrection\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:44:09","slug":"west-africa-activist-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-inciting-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-activist-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-inciting-insurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Activist Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for &#8216;Inciting Insurrection&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">Digital activist Ibrahim Zigui, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1796881\/politique\/cote-divoire-cinq-ans-de-prison-pour-ibrahim-zigui-un-cyberactiviste-proche-du-ppa-ci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PPA-CI<\/a>, the main opposition party, was <a href=\"https:\/\/afriksoir.net\/cote-divoire-zigui-ibrahim-condamne-a-5-ans-de-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koaci.com\/article\/2026\/05\/18\/cote-divoire\/politique\/cote-divoire-zigui-ibrahim-condamne-a-5-ans-de-prison-pour-provocation-a-linsurrection_196743.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 May 2026<\/a> to five years&#8217; imprisonment and a fine of 20 million CFA francs (approximately US$35,500) by an Ivorian court. He was found guilty of &#8220;inciting insurrection&#8221; and &#8220;disorderly conduct.&#8221; Zigui, who has some 600,000 followers on TikTok and 250,000 on Facebook, regularly publishes videos critical of the Ouattara government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The sentence comes after several months of pre-trial detention&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605270047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital activist Ibrahim Zigui, a member of the PPA-CI, the main opposition party, was sentenced on 18 May 2026 to five years&#8217; imprisonment and a fine of 20 million CFA francs (approximately US$35,500) by an Ivorian court. He was found guilty of &#8220;inciting insurrection&#8221; and &#8220;disorderly conduct.&#8221; Zigui, who has some 600,000 followers on TikTok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[8956,258,256,6183,6555,15233,30373,1218,257,5115,6787,254,4375,5114],"class_list":["post-234670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-inciting","tag-insurrection","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-sentenced","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}