INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION PLACE DU PETIT-SACONNEX 1211 GENEVA 19, SWITZERLAND |
CASE N° GUI/04 - ALPHA CONDÉ - GUINEA
Resolution adopted without a vote by the Inter-Parliamentary Council
Referring to the outline of the case of Mr. Alpha Condé, a member of the National Assembly of Guinea, as contained in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/168/13(c)-R.1), and to the relevant resolution adopted at its 167th session (October 2000), Taking account of the information supplied by a Guinean delegate to the 105th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (April 2001), as well as of the information supplied by the sources on 16 February and 24 March 2001, Recalling that Mr. Alpha Condé, a candidate in the 1998 presidential election and President of the opposition Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée (RPG), was arrested on 15 December 1998 prior to the announcement of the provisional elections results; he was first accused of "attempting to leave the country clandestinely" and "assault and battery of members of the public order force" and subsequently, in January 1999, with "attempt to cross borders, fraudulent export of foreign currency, attempt to recruit mercenaries and breach of State security"; on 11 September 2000, the State Security Court found him guilty of all the charges and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment, which he is currently serving, Recalling that the on-site observers mandated by the Committee to follow the trial of Alpha Condé and his co-defendants were satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the sentence handed down on Mr. Condé was the outcome of a trial which had patently failed to respect the standards of fair trial as defined in national standards and in international treaties ratified by Guinea, involving in particular torture either to extort confessions or to oblige witnesses and co-defendants to testify against Alpha Condé, and that it had therefore called for Mr. Condé's immediate and unconditional release, Considering that Mr. Condé, who is serving his sentence at the Conakry Central Remand Prison, is prevented from contacts with the outside world, only his doctor being authorised to visit him from time to time; he is suffering from hip pain and his general state of health is reported to be deteriorating as a result of his conditions of detention,
|