Guinea: Opponents’ Deaths In Detention

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A sign showing Conakry’s central prison. Photo taken on March 11, 2021, in Conakry, Guinea. © 2021 Mamoudou Diallo (Nairobi) – Four men detained as suspected political opposition supporters died in Guinea between November 2020 and January 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. The four men were among hundreds of opposition supporters or suspected opposition sympathizers arrested around the time of the March 2020 referendum and the October 2020 presidential election. Guinean authorities have blamed these deaths on illness or natural causes, but family members of victims,…

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