Burkina Faso: call for lawyers' strike to obtain the release of Guy Hervé Kam
Burkinabé lawyers are worried, because they still have no news from their colleague Guy Hervé Kam. The lawyer was arrested at the airport on the night of Wednesday to Thursday January 25, 2024. Since then, his relatives and members of his political party have had no news. It is in this context that the Bar Council is calling for a work stoppage for lawyers across the country on Thursday February 15.
Guy-Hervé Kam, here lawyer for the Balai cioyen movement, alongside the spokesperson for this movement Serge Martin Bambara Smockey, November 12, 2014 in Ouagadougou. © Issouf Sanogo / AFP
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Obtaining the unconditional release of Guy Hervé Kam is the objective of this day without lawyers. Gathered in an extraordinary general meeting, the members of the Council therefore invite their colleagues to “
refrain from participating in hearings before all courts without exception
” and call for “
strict compliance with this decision
. »
This nationwide work stoppage is planned for Thursday, February 15, three weeks, to the day, after Master Kam's arrest. He is part of the actions taken to obtain his release.
The political movement of the lawyer, “Server et non se Serr” (Sens), indicated, last week, that Guy Hervé Kam had not
“been able to speak with a lawyer, that a delegation from the bar which wanted to visit him was not allowed to see him.
» The members of the movement and the lawyers therefore challenge the authorities: “
We hope that Guy Hervé Kam will be heard by the courts, like any citizen, and that the facts with which he is accused be duly notified to him.
»
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