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[08.59 London / Abuja time] Updates on Sheikh #Zakzaky's hearing of 5 August can be found in this thread.
[09.14] The lawyers are now in court
[09.15] The counsels are in the court waiting for the judge to arrive
[9.42] Phones have been barred from the court today, so information release is slow.
[10.18] The court has decided that Sheikh Zakzaky can loose his life anytime as a result of a poor health condition.
The court ruled that the government lawyers failed to provide cogent proofs that there was a reliant hospital that can take care of sheikh inside the country.
The court ruled that the government lawyers failed to provide cogent proofs that there was a reliant hospital that can take care of sheikh inside the country.
[10.24] The judge has dismissed a claim made by the lawyers that the foreign doctors did not work in line with the government's guidelines.
[10.26] The judge insists the defendants must be allowed to seek medical treatment because without that there is no they could stand to defend themselves.
[10.37] Court has accepted to grant bail for Sheikh Zakzaky and Mallimah Zeenah.
[10.39] The court has granted Zakzaky and his wife a permission to travel to India for medical treatment.
