They ask for two years in prison for the leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Movement in Guinea

MADRID Jan. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Guinean Prosecutor’s Office has requested this Thursday two years in prison for the president of the opposition party Liberal Democratic Movement (MoDel), Aliou Bah, accused of “offending and defaming” the leader of the military junta that has governed the country since the coup d’état in 2021, General Mamady Doumboya.

The prosecutor of the Kaloum court, a district of the Guinean capital, Conakry, has requested two years in prison for Bah, alleging that he “made unhealthy, humiliating and insulting comments towards all leaders and the head of state in particular” in the past. December 21.

“He described the leaders as corrupt and the power of the president as illegitimate. Therefore, it is in view of these facts that the accused was arrested and transferred to the headquarters of this court,” the Prosecutor’s Office stated during the trial, of which the news portal Guinee News has echoed.

Doumboya assumed power after a coup d’état in September 2021 that overthrew civilian president Alpha Condé, closing a period of political crisis due to this president’s decision to modify the Constitution to run for a third term and after his victory in the presidential elections. of 2020, in which the rest of the candidates denounced fraud.