Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty for complicity of murdering the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced "in absentia" to life imprisonment.
Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty of complicity inthemurder ofthe country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced "in absentia" to life imprisonment.CompaoréhasbeeninexileinIvoryCoasteversinceresigningtothepresidencyfollowingthe2014BurkinaFasouprising.
