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Posted on January 22, 2025

Malian singer Rokia Traore to be released from Belgian prison, news agency reports

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Malian singer Rokia Traore, arrested in Rome last year over an international child custody dispute and later handed over to Belgium, will be released from a Belgian prison on Wednesday, local news agency Belga reported quoting her lawyers.

Reuters could not immediately reach Traore's representatives or confirm the release with local authorities.

Traore, 50, is one of Africa's best-known vocalists and was a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR from 2016 to 2018.

Italian authorities handed over the Malian singer to Belgium last November after Italy's highest court had rejected her appeal.

In October 2023, she was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison in Belgium in connection with the battle over custody of her daughter.

She was first arrested in France in 2020 on a Belgian warrant after failing to follow a court order connected to the singer's dispute with her estranged Belgian former partner, Jan Goossens, over custody of their daughter.

But months after she was conditionally released, she flew to Mali on a private flight, defying orders not to leave France until her extradition case was processed. Her daughter lives in Mali.

(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)

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