Simone Gbagbo profile

On 23 November 2012 the International Criminal Court asked the government of Cote d'Ivoire to send the country's former first lady Simone Gbagbo for trial in The Hague. She would join her husband, former president Laurent Gbagbo, who is already a prisoner there. Simone Gbagbo's arrest warrant alleges that she was “criminally responsible for murder, rape, other forms of sexual violence, other inhumane acts, and persecution” during violence last year that followed Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to accept that he had lost the presidential election. Here is my profile of her (minus sfx). It was broadcast on Monocle: