9/7/2025–|Last update: 01:15 (Mecca time)
Today, Tuesday, 25 local and international human rights organizations called on the Guinean authorities to reveal the fate of activists in the Defense of the Constitution, a year after their forced disappearance, amid increasing kidnappings in a “climate of terror”.
Omar Sella and Mamado Billo Bahta were subjected to enforced disappearance a year ago, and organizations called on the Guinean authorities to ensure that persons suspended their responsibility for kidnappings and enforced disappearance in the country to justice through fair trials.
The organizations stressed that the Guinean authorities should enable the victims to reach justice and effective ways.
“We call on the Guinean authorities to end this unlikely silence over the fate of the activists on the two of the constitution,” said human rights organizations. “Nothing indicates that she has made actual investigations to find them since they disappeared a year ago,” she added.
On July 9, 2024, Mamado Billo Bahn, Omar, and Omar Sila, was independent in the latter’s house in Conakry by armed men, before they appeared to be transferred by the Special Forces to the Los Island Archipelago.
Human rights activists are believed to be interrogated and tortured, according to a third member of the front that was kidnapped with them and was released the next day, and the authorities denied their detention, and their fate is still unknown until now.
The Constitution Defense Front is a movement of civil society calling for a return to civil rule, and it was dissolved in 2022, and Omar Sila, its national coordinator, called for a demonstration on July 11, 2024 against media repression and the high cost of living, among other things.
On July 17, 2024, the Public Prosecutor announced the opening of “accurate and comprehensive investigations” on several kidnappings, including the kidnapping of Omar Sila and Mamado Billo Bah, but no information was provided about the progress of these investigations until then.
