5 Interesting and Shocking Reasons Why Marlian Singer, ROKIA TRAORE was Arrested in Italy.

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Marlian singer, Rokia Traore has been arrested for child custody row in Italy. We once told you how she won many awards to defeats many heavy weight last year. Below are full details of what happened today.

Traoré was initially detained in France in 2020 on a Belgian arrest warrant after failing to heed a court order to hand over her child to her Belgian father.

Last October, Traoré was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison by a court in Belgium on charges of parental abduction for “failing to hand over a child to the person entitled to custody”, Belgian prosecutors told AFP.
Her daughter, who is now aged nine years, has lived in Mali since turning four.
A lawyer for the child’s father, Traoré’s former partner, reportedly said he had not had any contact with his daughter since then.
When she was initially arrested in 2020, she had been traveling from Mali to Brussels intending to appeal against the custody ruling, her lawyers had said.

Mali’s government then came out in support of the singer, saying that she had a diplomatic passport.She is also known for her advocacy work for refugees, becoming a goodwill ambassador for the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees in 2015 in West and Central Africa. Read more