A collective called on Monday for a new demonstration against the junta on August 17 in Guinea, ending a truce for lack of answers to its requests for “credible dialogue” on the transition to civilian power.
In Conakry, a collective called on Monday August 8 for new demonstrations against the junta on August 14 in Brussels, Belgium, to challenge the European Union, and on August 17 throughout Guinea, ending a truce, for lack of answers to his requests for “ believable dialogue on the transition to civilian rule.
The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), a coalition of parties, trade unions and civil society organizations, was behind the demonstrations organized on 28 and 29 July, banned by the authorities and where five people were killed, to denounce the “ unilateral transition management by the junta.
” These demonstrations aim to demand from the CNRD the satisfaction of the claims below, lists Mamadou Billo Bah, the FNDC spokesperson, at the microphone of our correspondent in Conakry, Mouctar Bah : the opening of a framework for credible dialogue between the CNRD, political actors and civil society ; the setting of a reasonable and consensual deadline for the duration of the transition, instead of being six months imposed by the CNRD and which is not based on any objective basis ; respect for fundamental rights and freedoms, first and foremost the right to life and the annulment of the decision on a general ban on peaceful demonstrations in the streets and in public places ; the opening of the blood crimes trial ; the unconditional release of all political detainees linked to the protests ; the end of judicial harassment and frivolous lawsuits against political and civil society actors ; the opening of an independent investigation placed under the aegis of the United Nations in order to bring before the competent courts the perpetrators and sponsors of the crimes and abuses perpetrated. »
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