Guinee, laat activisten Sylla en Bah vrij!

To: Prime Minister, Amadou Oury Bah Dear Prime Minister, I am writing to express my grave concern regarding the enforced disappearances of Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah. On 9 July, the two activists and members of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), were arrested by armed defense and security forces in Oumar Sylla’s house in Conakry, Guinea. Since then, Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah have had no contact with their lawyers and families, and their whereabouts remain unknown. On the day of their arrest, Sylla had called on social networks for people to wear red clothes on 11 July to “protest against the closure of the media and the high cost of living, in particular power cuts and all the blunders of the transition”. They have been targeted simply for exercising their rights and now their enforced disappearances put their safety at risk. I urge you to immediately release Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah and ensure there is an effective investigation into their enforced disappearance, capable of bringing anyone suspected of criminal responsibility to justice in fair trials. Pending their release, I urge you to guarantee they are protected from torture and other ill-treatment while in detention. Yours sincerely, [lastname] [city] The Netherlands