Guinée : l'ex-magistrat détenu a été transféré dans une prison éloignée de Conakry
A respected Guinean magistrate, recently dismissed, charged with suspected collusion with an opponent and detained near Conakry, has been transferred to a prison far from the capital, the prison administration announced Sunday, after his lawyers reported that he was no longer in his cell.
Since General Mamadi Doumbouya came to power through a coup in 2021 and then an election in 2025, political parties have been suspended, demonstrations have been repressed and many dissenting voices have been arrested, convicted, forced into exile or have disappeared.
Magistrate Algassimou Diallo is being prosecuted for "incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence for discrimination" and "criminal association".
He is notably accused of exchanging messages with former Prime Minister and opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who is in exile abroad, which are presented as hostile to the government.
He was being held in Coyah prison, near Conakry, and his trial opened on Friday before the Supreme Court, before being postponed until Tuesday.
"As part of the administrative management of penitentiary establishments, he was transferred on September 5 to the Macenta remand and correction house," some 700 kilometers east of Conakry, the National Directorate of Penitentiary Administration and Reintegration said in a statement.
She added that he "currently remains detained there in execution of the arrest warrant issued against him."
On Saturday, Algassimou Diallo's lawyers expressed their "concern," noting that the former magistrate was "no longer in his cell" and demanding that the authorities reveal his place of detention.
Mr. Diallo had made a name for himself last year as head of the prosecutor's office during the trial for the September 28, 2009 massacre in a Conakry stadium.
Several high-ranking Guinean military officials had been found guilty of the massacre of at least 156 people at a rally of opposition supporters.
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