Guinea’s legislature has criticised the arrest and continued detention of opposition leader Alpha Conde and three other members of parliament, the missionary news agency MISNA said yesterday. In a letter to President Lansana Conte, the parliament denounced the arrests as unconstitutional, adding that the four detainees had been tortured, MISNA reported. Conte won presidential elections on 14 December while Conde, who heads the Rassemblement du peuple de Guinee (RPG), came in third. Conde’s arrest on the Guinean-Ivorian border on 16 December has sparked public protests in the capital Conakry and other areas of the country.
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