Prominent Critic of Guinean Junta Abducted, Tortured

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Mohamed Traoré, Guinea 2024. © 2024 Private In Guinea early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traoré, a prominent lawyer and former bar association president, assaulted him and his daughter, and then forced him into a car and drove away. Traoré had been publicly critical of the country’s military junta, which took power in September 2021.After his abduction in the capital, Conakry, Traoré was found hours later with multiple marks of torture in Bangouyah, about 170 kilometers away, by local…

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