Guinea: controversy after the junta's decision to ban demonstrations during the Transition

Colonel Doumbouya surrounded by members of the CRND.

September 17, 2021. AFP - JOHN WESSELS

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Controversy in Guinea after the decision of the ruling junta to ban public demonstrations for the time of the transition.

The measure was denounced by civil society and political parties.

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In a press release read on public television this Friday evening, May 13, the National Rally Committee for Development (CNRD), prohibits " 

all demonstrations on the public highway, likely to compromise social tranquility and the correct execution of the activities contained in the chronogram until the periods of the electoral campaign

 ".

This decision is taken two days after the setting

of a 36-month period

for the transition.

In other words, demonstrations would be banned for three years.

🟢 Communiqué012/CNRD/2022⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Gnk32daLWl

— Presidency of Guinea (@Presidence_gn) May 13, 2022

According to the FNDC, this is an illegal and illegitimate decision.

The platform behind the fight against the 3rd term of Alpha CondĂ© denounces “ 

the manifest desire of the CNRD to drag on in power by muzzling all the social and political forces of the country

 â€ť.

And she warns that she will not submit to this ban and will resume walking.

Abdoulaye Oumou Sow (FNDC): “We cannot be denied this right”

Francois Mazet

For its part, the Guinean Organization for the Defense of Human Rights (OGDH) recalls that the right to demonstrate is guaranteed by international conventions and by the transition charter itself.

Alseny Sall (OGDH): “We do not understand this CNRD approach”

Francois Mazet

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