Guinea Human Rights
Human Rights Concerns
Last January, Guinean president Lansana Cont was reelected for another 7-year term, amidst loud accusations from the Guinean Human Rights Organization that the election organizers had committed serious and massive violations of the law. Members of the Union of Republican Forces were reported to have been arrested and detained without charge or trial. Last year a number of military officers accused of plotting a coup were finally released, after having been held incommunicado, without charge or trial, for over ten months. Some of those officers still remained in detention. Striking students were beaten, arrested, and detained as well.
» Read our joint letter with HRW about the crisis in Guinea here.
This letter is a responce to the violence committed by Guinean security forces against participants in the September 28, 2009 demonstrations in Conakry.
Latest News
Guinea: Military and police weapons transfers must be suspendedOctober 08, 2009
Guinea: Call for suspension of military and police weapons transfers
October 08, 2009
Guinea: Amnesty International Calls on Governments to Suspend All Weapons and Arms Supplies to Guinea
October 08, 2009
World Habitat Day: Governments in Africa must end forced evictions
October 05, 2009
Guinea: Details of Brutal Attack in Guinea Includes Public Rapes of Women, Deliberate Killings by Soldiers, Says Amnesty International
October 01, 2009
Guinea: International inquiry needed into violence by Guinea security forces
October 01, 2009
Latest Reports
Guinea: "Soldiers were shooting everywhere"June 27, 2007
Vital UN human rights work under threat
May 09, 2007
Amnesty International Magazine article: Freedom Writers
September 06, 2006
Papua New Guinea: Letter to the PNG Government. Recruitment of Female Police Officers
February 01, 2006
