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Family of Benin poison suspect denies confession

The family of a man charged with attempting to poison the president of Benin says authorities are trying to force the suspect to sign a confession by keeping him in a tiny cell without food.Moudjaidou Soumanou, a former trade minister, was one of three people arrested earlier this month and charged with conspiracy and attempted murder.The suspects are accused of plotting to swap President Boni Yayi's medicine with a toxic substance in exchange for millions of dollars. The plot allegedly unraveled when one of the three suspects told her sister who then alerted authorities.Soumanou's family said he is now being held in a 1-square meter (yard) cell without access to food or daylight. Family members also have not been able to bring thyroid medication to the 53-year-old.His son-in-law denied the prosecutor's assertion that Soumanou already had confessed to involvement in the attempted poisoning."He told us, 'Look I did not confess to anything. I have nothing to confess,'" said Franck Gomez,...

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