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The State Security Court of the Republic of the Comoros has sentenced former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi to life in prison on charges of high treason, despite the decision of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in which his detention was qualified as arbitrary.

"I am not afraid of justice but of injustice", wrote the former President of the Comoros, Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah Sambi, in a letter addressed to President Azali Assoumani, to underline a legal situation that is unprecedented in the history of Comorian justice.