Guinea: Possession of a weapon of war, participation in the formation of a parallel government, disturbing public order, third-term opponents taken to prison by the former historic opponent.

  Incarcerated for five days in the premises of the judicial police, the five opposition figures were indicted for "attacking the fundamental interests of the nation" placed under a committal warrant and imprisoned in the civil prison of Conakry.

 Abdoulaye Bah, Ousmane Gaoual Diallo and Cellou Baldé, all of the UFDG, the main formation of the Guinean opposition, as well as Etienne Soropogui, of the Common Values ​​Movement, active support of Cellou Dalein Diallo during the presidential election on October 18  , spent their first night in the civil prison in Conakry.

 They were brought on Monday, November 16 before an investigating judge at the Dixinn court, in the outskirts of Conakry, who charged them with "manufacturing and possessing weapons of war and attacking the fundamental interests of the nation" and immediately  taken under good escort to civil prison.  They joined Ibrahima Chérif Bah, one of the vice-presidents of the UFDG and former governor of the Central Bank of Guinea, indicted and placed under committal last week for the same reasons.

 In a statement to the press, the spokesperson for the collective of defense lawyers, Me Salifou Béavogui, explained: "our clients, political prisoners, have good morale, very confident since they are convinced of  their innocence ”, adding that“ they are simply being prosecuted for political reasons ”.

 The prosecutor, meanwhile, has declined to speak.  The prosecution simply said last week that these senior opposition officials were actively wanted for uttering threats likely to disturb public order.

 Former historical opponent and first democratically elected president of this former French colony of West Africa governed until then by authoritarian powers, Alpha Condé has often disputed the relevance of limiting the number of mandates on the continent.

 Conde, definitively proclaimed on November 7 by the Constitutional Court as president of Guinea for a third consecutive term at the age of 82, after months of a dispute that cost the lives of dozens of civilians, affirms that no  A "witch hunt" was not underway in his country.  “There is no witch hunt.  Nobody is targeted, except the people who are accused of having sponsored the violence around the recent presidential election, declared Condé, interviewed Friday, November 13 by AFP and RFI radio.  “Since we have arrested people, it is up to the courts to decide,” he added.