Thursday, June 23, 2022

Civilians among the defendants in Guinea military trial

Guinea has begun a military trial of soldiers and civilians on charges of, among other things, conspiracy, attack, assassination, and participation in an insurrectionary movement, according to this report from Africaguinée.com.

The trial of civilians by military courts is strongly disfavored by human rights law and forbidden under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

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