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State holds on Aboud Rogo's widow despite her acquittal

Wife of the slain radical cleric Sheikh Aboud Rogo,  Haniya Said Sagar at Mombasa High Court on Friday. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Despite being acquitted by the High Court on Friday, authorities have refused to free Haniya Said Sagar, the widow of the slain radical cleric Sheikh Aboud Rogo.

Yesterday, her lawyer Mbugua Mureithi and rights group Haki Africa in Mombasa accused the State of plotting to hold her indefinitely at Shimo la Tewa Prison arguing that this amounts to “detention without trial”.

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