Burkina Faso: return to civilian life for Doctor Daouda Diallo

In Burkina Faso, it is the return to civilian life for Doctor Daouda Diallo.

After the politician Ablassé Ouedraogo, Thursday March 7 in the morning, the human rights defender returned from the combat zone this Friday, March 8, "front" where he had been brought by force at the beginning of December 2023.

Burkinabe pharmacist and human rights defender Daouda Diallo, in February 2022. AP - Sophie Garcia

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After ten weeks on the ground, he is back home and he is doing well 

” indicates a relative of Daouda Diallo, who says no more.

The human rights defender, who returned to

Ouagadougou

last night, was reunited with his family and has not yet spoken. 

“ 

Punitive measure

 ”

Arrested on December 1, 2023 as he left the passport office, Doctor Diallo, a pharmacist by profession, appeared on a list of twelve people requisitioned by the army at the beginning of November 2023. A respected activist, the secretary general of the Collective against impunity and the stigmatization of communities, then severely criticized the military in power, considered in particular that this requisition was a “

punitive measure

 ” and called on the Burkinabè to mobilize, to “ 

block the road to the dictatorship in progress

 ”. 

Two members of Citizen Balai arrested

In fatigues, weapon in hand, Daouda Diallo

appeared in photos

at the end of the year, more recently in a video alongside Ablassé Ouedragogo who was released on Thursday.

Other activists have recently been arrested in Burkina Faso.

In particular two members of Citizen Balai: Rasmane Zinaba and Bassirou Badjo in mid-February 2024. Since then, the civil society movement has had no news of these two activists.

Read alsoBurkina Faso: a new massacre in the province of Komondjari in the east of the country 

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