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Conde faces life imprisonment

    ABIDJAN

    The state prosecutor in the trial of Guinean opposition leader Alpha Conde has requested a term of life imprisonment. “Now we’re just waiting for what the defence will say next Wednesday,” Sekou Coumbassa, a spokesman for Conde’s Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinee (RPG) party, told IRIN on Thursday.

    Conde and 47 others are on trial for sedition. The state prosecutor said on Wednesday that the RPG leader and four of his co-accused were guilty of “threatening the state’s authority and territorial integrity”, AFP reported.

    Two of the defendants are fugitives. The trial has been adjourned to 23
    August.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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