11 Sentenced to Death Over Conservationist’s Murder in Tanzania

11 Sentenced to Death Over Conservationist’s Murder in Tanzania
South African conservationist Wayne Lotter in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Jan. 14, 2017. Daniel Hayduk/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
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NAIROBI, Kenya—A high court in Tanzania on Friday sentenced 11 people to death for the murder of a conservationist in the East African country more than five years ago.

Anti-poaching activist Wayne Lotter, a South African national, was shot dead in August 2017 while riding in a taxi in Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es Salaam.