{"id":4484,"date":"2014-07-26T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:14:56","slug":"cameroon-sends-14-boko-haram-members-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-sends-14-boko-haram-members-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon sends 14 Boko Haram members to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yaounde &#8211; A military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of up to 20 years to 14 Boko Haram members, the country&#8217;s state broadcaster Crtv reported.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, who were arrested in March after the discovery of a weapons cache, admitted to being part of the Nigerian extremist group at a &#8220;public hearing&#8221; in the northern town of Maroua, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>They had been charged with the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition and of plotting an insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of the Boko Haram members (was) sentenced to between 10 and 20 years&#8221; in prison, said the report, adding that the sentences cannot be appealed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/world\/422586\/cameroon-sends-14-boko-haram-members-to-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaounde &#8211; A military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of up to 20 years to 14 Boko Haram members, the country&#8217;s state broadcaster Crtv reported. The defendants, who were arrested in March after the discovery of a weapons cache, admitted to being part of the Nigerian extremist group at a &#8220;public hearing&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,355,3253,4698,377,3256,3252,257,3255,254,3254,4692,378],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-members","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-illegal-possession-of-firearms-and-ammunition","tag-military-court-in-cameroon","tag-news","tag-nigerian-extremist-group","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weapons-cache","tag-west-africa","tag-yaounde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}