Osman defended the prisoners’ standing as citizens against the coup guards’ derision

Evidence

During that first day of captivity, one of the guards told the group that there was a new government and that they were nothing. Osman stood up to this man and told him that they might not be government leaders but that they were citizens, and the officer immediately corrected himself. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1046

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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Broader Connections

• Osman maintained his dignity toward a guard even in captivity #exemplifies (0.85)