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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Thursday 25 April 2024

Jail term overturned

* A Kenyan court on Friday overturned a 20-year jail term handed to an ivory trafficking ‘kingpin’, in a case that had been seen as a test of the country's will to take on rampant poaching. Feisal Mohamed Ali, a Kenyan national, was sentenced in 2016 after prosecutors presented him as the head of an organised crime network that spanned African wildlife parks and buyers in Asia, the primary destination for poached ivory. However on appeal, Mombasa High Court judge Dora Chepkwony rejected the sentence passed by the lower court in July 2016 as ‘unconstitutional’.