Nearly two months after the coup in Burkina Faso, former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is still under house arrest. He had been arrested during the military coup of January 24, forced to resign and placed under house arrest. Since then, the former head of state is still not free to move. His lawyers believe he is being held “unlawfully”.
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré’s lawyers denounce his conditions of detention and demand his release. They will file a petition before the ECOWAS Court of Justice in the coming days.
” We call for the former head of state to be released immediately and, at the very least, for an end to his conditions of detention, which are not only illegal, but for which he is suffering a number of treatment that can be described as inhuman and degrading “, denounces Me Benjamin Chouai, one of the lawyers of the former president of Burkina Faso.
He specifies that the former head of state is regularly changed location and that he is totally isolated. “ Firstly because he has now been detained for two months, this is the third time that his place of detention has been changed, each time these brutal changes have not been made known to him. So he undergoes these comings and goings. And in terms of visit, weigh on him a certain number of constraints. Since his relatives, his teams cannot visit him. He can no longer communicate with the outside world. All of this is completely unacceptable. And this is the basis of our request. »