Guinea: a journalist in prison.


  1. On Monday 11th, Albassirou Diallo alias El Bechir, an independent journalist, former collaborator of Obsevateur Newspaper had been arrested by the Central Office of Judiciary Police.
    Somebody called and told him to go and take 3 bags of rice and 500,000 GNF in a private radio. But before leaving he informed his friends in case it was a trap.
    What is he accused of?
    He is accused of phoning to Commandant Alpha Oumar Boffa Diallo alias AOB who is him-self arrested for the so called attack of Alpha Condé’s private residence. This conversation took place an hour before this attack.
    At the judiciary police station, Albassirou said that conversation was about 30,000 GNF that AOB should give to a woman. As for Albssirou’s friends, they talk about an SMS.
    As far as the police are concerned, Albassirou had been arrested for investigations about the attack Alpha Condé’s private residence. He would have been transferred to Dixinn Gendarmerie. But Albassirou said he had been brought to Matam PM3 and put at the disposal of the Investigation Commission. He is 39th person arrested for this so-called attack.
    Analysts say that this attack is a plot planned by Alpha Condé and his cronies in order to arrest scary militaries and eliminate opposition leaders.


    Mamadou Dian Donghol Diallo
    The africanews reporter in Guinea.



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