Guinea: the Minister of Justice calls for legal proceedings against the FNDC

FNDC demonstrators in the streets of Conakry in January 2020 (illustrative image).

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Charles Wright, the Keeper of the Seals, sent this Tuesday, August 2 a note to the General Prosecutor's Office at the Conakry Court of Appeal in which he asks the prosecutor to prosecute the FNDC.

This move comes after the imprisonment, at the end of last week, of two FNDC officials.

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 These are the injunctions issued by the Minister of Justice against the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FDNC), and in particular its representative, Sekou Koundouno.

Charles Wright criticizes the citizens' movement for having " 

" against the President of the Transition, Mamadi Doumbouya, accusing him of being the mastermind of the repression.

This, without the FNDC providing the slightest proof, specified the Keeper of the Seals.

This note from the Minister of Justice comes as yesterday the citizens' movement announced that it had seized the Attorney General of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to denounce the deadly repression of demonstrations and the violation of human rights in the country.

To this complaint, the FNDC attached a list 

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And Mamadi Doumbouya is the first name mentioned.

Last week, the FNDC organized demonstrations when these had been banned.

According to the authorities, the movement would have caused the loss of several human lives, serious injuries and material damage.

They also accuse the movement of using children under the age of 10 for political purposes.

► To read also: Guinea: the two arrested FNDC leaders have been charged and imprisoned

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