Human Rights Watch (HRW) is concerned, in a new report, about the human rights situation under the CNRD junta in Guinea. If the NGO welcomes the organization of the trial of the massacre of September 28, 2009, an important progress for justice in the country, it denounces the forced disappearances of the two actors of civil society, Foniké Menguè and Mamadou Billo Bah, as well as the repression of the media and journalists. HRW provides, above all, details on the circumstances of the deaths of demonstrators in 2024.
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Amadou Korka Diallo, 18, was killed while protesting fuel shortages. It is then January 9, in the Hamdallaye district, in Conakry. The demonstration was almost over when, according to videos collected by Human Rights Watch, a gendarmerie van stopped near him, a tear gas grenade was thrown and Amadou was fatally shot in the abdomen.
A month later, the unions called a general strike to protest against the detention of the secretary of one of the press unions. Young demonstrators throw stones at a gendarmerie van, still in the Hamdallaye district. Then, another van arrives and, according to witnesses, its occupants open fire. Ibrahima Touré, 18, dies.
These two cases are among nine protester deaths documented by Human Rights Watch in 2024.
Guinean human rights organizations say up to 59 people may have been killed during protests since Mamadi Doumbouya took power three years ago.
Human Rights Watch deplores the fact that the authorities have failed to investigate these deaths or prosecute those responsible.
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