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Opposition leader moved to prison

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    Opposition leader Alpha Conde, who was arrested on 16 December two days after presidential elections in which he came in third, has been transferred to the central prison in the capital Conakry at his lawyers’ request, AFP said yesterday. Conde has been held under house arrest on charges of illegally crossing the Guinean-Ivorian border and of threatening state security, news agencies said. AFP quoted Conde’s lawyers as saying they had only been able to see their client once since his arrest and that they had not been given access to court documents in the case.

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