The Global Gathering in Support the Choice of Resistance Condemns the unfair trial, and the arbitrary house arrest imposed on the former President of the Comoros, Ahmed Sambi,

The Global Gathering in Support the Choice of Resistance Condemns the unfair trial, and the arbitrary house arrest imposed on the former President of the Comoros, Ahmed Sambi,

The Gathering has dispatched its own legal advisor to find out the latest legal grounds, including the unfair and politicized trial, against the former president, which will be held contrary to the constitution and the laws and in force in the State of the Comoros.

The trial is against a former president whom no corruption charge has ever been proven against.

However, it is well known that ehat is happening is a malicious political trial before a security apparatus that has no legal right to continue this sham trial.

The Gathering declares its full support for the former president of the Comoros, and demands the authority in the Comoros to stop violating laws and customs, and to stop violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

General Secretary

Dr.Yahya Ghaddar

Attached is an appeal from President Sambi’s family explaining the extent of the flagrant violation of human rights and laws, in the trial of the former president

Press release from the Sambi family

November 07, 2022

The Legal Farce Continues

We learned through his lawyer that our father, Mr. Ahmed Abdullah Mohamed Sambi, has been referred for trial.

After more than 4 and a half years of investigation, no concrete evidence has been presented by the Public Prosecution against him.

No bank account in his name was transferred to embezzled public funds, no transaction proving corruption was found, and no cash amount was found.

The accusation simply repeats the false and defamatory statements made by former MP Zulkamal, who is now the current regime’s foreign minister and whose report has been proven illegal on numerous occasions.

Even worse now, after trying the normal procedure before the Moroni Court of First Instance, our father has been referred to an exceptional court, the famous State Security Court.

Is it still necessary to clarify that this court has no jurisdiction to judge the issue of economic nationality, and even less to try the former President of the Republic on charges of high treason?

Indeed, in the face of a complete lack of evidence against our father, in which the order of dismissal and acquittal was the only just decision, the prosecution preferred to reclassify the crimes.

Today the prosecution is talking about high treason, which is a political crime.

However, according to Article 30 of the 2001 Constitution amended in 2009, and Article 96 of the disputed 2018 Constitution, the matter of prosecuting presidents is only within the competence of the Supreme Court, sitting in the Supreme Court of Justice, to try the former President of the Republic for high treason in the exercise of his duties.

By making this referral, the Investigating Judge, Mr. Al-Amin Saeed Mohamed declared himself one of the constituents of this accusation, because he identified the constituent elements of the crime of high treason instead of the basic organic law which the representatives of the people in Parliament had to vote on and approve.

How do we explain the appearance of our father, Mr. Ahmed Abdullah Mohamed Sambi, former President of the Republic, before the State Security Court instead of the Supreme Court, which alone can try presidents?

Recourse to this unjustified and unconstitutional court of exception is confirmed in the end by the fact that this court is a recording chamber for the judgments requested by the prosecution.

The prosecution does not seek to know the truth of the economic citizenship case, but simply seeks to convict an innocent person vigorously.

Moreover, the decisions of this court are final because its decisions cannot be appealed.

There was a time when we, believing in fair and impartial justice, were the first to demand a trial to restore the truth and innocence of our father.

However, our father did not enjoy this justice.

On the contrary, since his illegal house arrest and arbitrary detention for more than 4 and a half years instead of 8 months, we have realized that he will never benefit from fair and impartial justice.

We would like to inform Comoros, the diplomatic corps present in Comoros, international organizations as well as Comorian and international journalists that the upcoming “trial” is nothing but a new charade and farce aimed at vehemently convicting him without any possibility of appeal against the arbitrary decision drawn in advance.

The lack of jurisdiction of the State Security Court, coupled with the lack of any evidence, clearly demonstrates the judicial and political arbitrariness and injustice against our father.

We would like to inform the public that Mr. Sambi will once again suffer before our very eyes an unspeakably grievous injustice.

Mrs. Taslam Ahmed Abdullah Mohamed Sambi.