Guineaan authorities must urgently reveal the fate and whereabouts of National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (Front national de défense de la Constitution – FNDC) activities Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah, who were forcibly disappeared a year ago, and ensure that those suspected to be responsible for the abductions and enforced disappearances in Guinea are brought to justice in fair trial and victims and family Members of victims are 25 Guinea and the International Human Rights Organization said judicial and effective remedies were provided.
“We call on Guinea authorities to break the unbearable silence of the fate of two FNDC activists. There is no indication that they have conducted an investigation to find two activists who have been missing for a year,” the human rights group said today.
Mamadou Billo Bah and Oumar Sylla (known as Foniké Menguè) were arrested at the home of Conakry on July 9, 2024 at the latter of the armed personnel and were allegedly taken to Loos Archipelago by special forces. The third member of the FNDC said they were interrogated and tortured, and he was kidnapped by two other people and released the next day. Authorities deny possession of them, and their fate is still unknown.
The FNDC, a civil society movement that demands a return to civil rule, was dissolved in 2022. Oumar Sylla, whose national coordinator calls for a July 11, 2024 call for demonstrations to oppose the crackdown on the media and the high cost of living.
Information about its progress has not been made public since the prosecutor’s announcement of several kidnappings “complete and complete” investigations by the Attorney General on July 17, 2024.
We call on the Guinea authorities to ratify without retaining an international convention to protect all persons from forced disappearance.
25 Guinea and International Human Rights Organizations
Reproduction of kidnapping and disappearance cases
According to witnesses, news reporter Habib Marouane Camara, managing director of the Le Révélateur news website, was kidnapped on December 3, 2024 at Lambanyi, Connerkery Commune. On December 6, 2024, the Dicksin Prosecutor’s Office announced that “the arrest was conducted without orders outside the case provided by the Constitutional authorities and the law”, announcing an investigation was underway. So far, there has been no news about the whereabouts of the journalists.
“Due to these announcements, the authorities have not disclosed information. We call on them to fully reveal the kidnapping and disappearance cases in the country through a swift, independent and transparent investigation of these cases. We also call on the authorities to ratify ratification without the need to retain international conventions to protect all, to protect all, to protect all, to protect human rights organizations.”
In addition to these circumstances, individuals known for their critical views were kidnapped torture. On February 19, 2025, the national coordinator of Abdoul Sacko’s Forum for Social Socials deGuinée was kidnapped and found on the same day, and his lawyer was found in a critical state, suffering and abandoned by Bush’s kidnappers.
Lawyer Mohamed Traoré suffered the same fate in June 2025. The former chairman of the Guinea Bar Association testified that he was “abuse” after being kidnapped from his home by armed personnel from June 20 to June 21. The Bar Association reported that he was found “covered by a wound.” On June 23, the prosecutor once again announced the opening of a “in-depth investigation into the facts”.
We call on authorities to respect their international human rights obligations, as they did before the United Nations Human Rights Commission in April 2025.
25 Guinea and International Human Rights Organizations
“Horror atmosphere”
After the kidnapping of Abdoul Sacko, the bar association condemns ‘ […] The judicial authorities lacked response at all.
Our organizations talk to lawyers and political actors who say they are under threat.
An opposition leader hiding for several months after being threatened by phone and moved to his home in his absence. Another politician said he often changes his residence and route after being threatened.
“Since I began defending some of the government critics, I have received at least four calls confirming that I was on the list of people who planned to abduct,” said one lawyer.
A human rights defender said he was alerted after condemning the statement of Mohamed Traoré’s kidnapping: “I received two calls from people I knew in the justice system, urging me to leave my home because I would be on the next one on the list based on their information. I took this very seriously.
“We call on the Guinea authorities to respect their international human rights obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfill the human rights of everyone in the country, as they did before the UN Human Rights Commission during the universal periodic review in April 2025, especially in the rights of free speech and peaceful human rights defenders and peaceful human rights defenders and international human rights organizations and international human rights organizations.
Signator
- Actions to Vulnerable Groups (APV)
- Guinea (AFLPAG) Women Leaders Alliance (AFLPAG) Alliance
- Guinea Media Human Rights Alliance (AMDH)
- Amnesty International
- Assisting the justice of children and women’s rights (AJDEF)
- Guinea Blog Authors Association (Ablogui)
- Association of Victims, Relatives and Friends on September 28, 2009 (AVIPA)
- Guinea’s borders have no borders (ASF Guinea)
- African Center for Training and Information on Human and Environmental Rights (CAFIDHE)
- Advice for children and young people from Guinea (CCEJG)
- Coalition of NGOs to protect and promote children’s rights, the fight against trafficking (Colt/CDE)
- Guinea Convention on Human Rights (Coguidh)
- Young leaders strive for the integration of peace and democracy (Cojelpaid)
- Coordination of Future Young Volunteers (CJCVF)
- Guinea Federation Association for the Promotion of Disability (feguipah)
- International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), within the framework of the Observatory’s protection of human rights defenders
- Guinea Civil Forum
- Young Health an for Health and Development (JASD)
- Young Leadership in Peace and Development in Africa (Lejepad)
- Guinea Human Rights Defense Organization (OGDH)
- The World Organization for Torture (OMCT) in the Observational Framework of Protecting Defenders’ Human Rights
- Help organize people with disabilities in Guinea (OSH Guinea)
- The Welfare Alliance for Albino People (UBPAAG)
- African women (wafrica Guinea)
- Women Hope Guinea Pig (WHP)
