Guinea: opponent Oumar Sylla sentenced to eleven months in prison

Demonstration in Conakry on November 26, 2019, to protest against a revision of the Constitution.

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Oumar Sylla, alias Foninké Mangué, was punished by the Mafanco court in Conakry for "direct provocation to an unarmed assembly".

A figure from the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, Oumar Sylla has been detained since September 29.

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With our correspondent in Conakry,

Carol Valade

Calm and dignified,

Oumar Sylla stands at the helm

.

Behind his sunglasses, he doesn't let anything show through.

He listens to the verdict: eleven months firm, for facts reclassified as " 

direct provocation to an unarmed gathering

 ".

Then he lets out his anger: "

I continue the fight against the third term of Mr. Alpha Condé!

», He exclaims in the hubbub, while the prison administration pushes him into the van. 

Incarcerated since September 29 and after two weeks of hunger strike to demand that his trial be held, he therefore has seven months of detention left.

"

We will file our letter of appeal in the hours that follow and we will fight for this decision to be purely and simply reversed by the Court of Appeal

 ", explains his lawyer Me Alseny Aïssata.

The detention of Oumar Sylla one month before the presidential election which allowed President Alpha Condé to obtain a controversial third term has been closely followed by human rights NGOs and Western chancelleries.

In a press release, the FNDC denounces a " 

remote-controlled sentence against the militant of democratic alternation

 ".

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