Guinea: the FNDC fears that Alpha Condé, in Turkey for medical care, escapes justice
The former Guinean president is in Turkey for medical treatment.
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Is Alpha Condé trying to escape justice by traveling to Turkey for medical treatment?
Is the Guinean junta interfering in legal affairs by letting him go?
This is what the lawyers of the FNDC, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, fear, the movement at the origin of the demonstrations of 2019 against the third term of the former president, which had been harshly repressed.
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Since May 4, Alpha Condé has been
prosecuted in Guinea
, along with 27 other political figures, for assassinations, acts of torture and kidnappings.
FNDC lawyer Thierry Brengarth recalls that in this context, the former president cannot leave the territory and he requests, on behalf of his clients, that the legal documents supposed to allow this trip be provided.
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This is an authorization that was obviously granted by the military junta.
This is at least the deduction that can be made from the press release.
But we also know that prosecutions have been initiated by the Guinean courts, which therefore assumes that control is exercised by the Guinean prosecutor's office.
Did this control really take place, on what text was this authorization decision taken and was this decision taken with interference from the military junta in defiance of the independence of justice?
Not only do we express strong fears about the risk that Alpha Condé will not appear before Guinean justice, and our fears are reinforced by what is at the origin of this authorization and therefore, perhaps, through of a violation of judicial independence.
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