Guinea: End Crackdown on Opponents to New Constitution

Expand   Gendarmes respond to an opposition demonstration in Conakry, Guinea, on November 15, 2018.   © 2018 Cellou Binani/AFP/Getty Images (Nairobi) – Guinea’s government should end its crackdown on the right to protest by releasing civil society leaders and demonstrators opposed to a new constitution, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also investigate the killings of protesters and one gendarme during three days of demonstrations which began October 14, 2019 in the capital, Conakry, and in towns in Guinea’s interior. Guinea’s government has effectively banned street protests…

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