THE daughter of detained former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has written to French President Nicolas Sarkozy voicing concern over his fate, her lawyers said yesterday.
"My father, mother and brother have been arrested, not to say kidnapped as war booty, without any legal mandate," wrote lawyer Marie-Antoinette Singleton, who lives in the US, according to her counsel Gilbert Collard.
Gbagbo was captured by forces loyal to new President Alassane Ouattara on April 11, after nearly five months of a bitter election feud sparked by his refusal to relinquish power despite being deemed to have lost to Ouattara.
Gbagbo, his wife Simone and dozens of others were arrested during a military operation in Abidjan.
The former president and his wife are under house arrest in separate towns in the former rebel north of the country.
"They have been imprisoned and held in a secret location, without knowing what charges have been made against them," Singleton wrote.
"Showing contempt for the most basic humanity, the family has no news of them," Singleton wrote, adding that she had had no response to a request she made to Ouattara to be allowed to visit her father.
Ouattara's government has launched an investigation into the alleged crimes of Gbagbo's regime.
Please help - Gbagbo's girl
THE daughter of detained former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has written to French President Nicolas Sarkozy voicing concern over his fate, her lawyers said yesterday.
"My father, mother and brother have been arrested, not to say kidnapped as war booty, without any legal mandate," wrote lawyer Marie-Antoinette Singleton, who lives in the US, according to her counsel Gilbert Collard.
Gbagbo was captured by forces loyal to new President Alassane Ouattara on April 11, after nearly five months of a bitter election feud sparked by his refusal to relinquish power despite being deemed to have lost to Ouattara.
Gbagbo, his wife Simone and dozens of others were arrested during a military operation in Abidjan.
The former president and his wife are under house arrest in separate towns in the former rebel north of the country.
"They have been imprisoned and held in a secret location, without knowing what charges have been made against them," Singleton wrote.
"Showing contempt for the most basic humanity, the family has no news of them," Singleton wrote, adding that she had had no response to a request she made to Ouattara to be allowed to visit her father.
Ouattara's government has launched an investigation into the alleged crimes of Gbagbo's regime.
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