Guinean police have released four young men detained this Sunday morning while demonstrating in Bissau against the dissolution of parliament ordered by President Humaro Sissoko Embalo, an official source said.
A statement from the secretariat of the Central African Youth Council “Amilcar Cabral” (JAAC) of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), published on the social networking site Facebook, announced the release of the young man earlier this evening.
At the organization’s leadership summit this Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria, young people demonstrated in front of the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) demanding the annulment of the decision of the Guinean head of state.
“We hereby inform our comrades that our leaders, who were arbitrarily detained in the full exercise of their rights, have finally been released,” the statement said.
However, JAAC demands accountability for the moral and material perpetrators of the detention of young people it calls “fighters for liberal democracy” in Guinea-Bissau.
The situation in Guinea-Bissau is one of the points of the summit in which Sissoko Embalo is participating.
The President of Guinea mentioned the existence of a serious institutional crisis in the country and an attempted coup on the 1st, but on the 4th he dissolved the parliament, which he accuses of being a hotbed of instability.
The President of Parliament and PAIGC leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, argues that the President’s decision is unconstitutional because, according to the Constitution, the National People’s Assembly can only be dissolved 12 months after the legislative elections.
Simões Pereira scheduled a plenary session of parliament for next Wednesday, interrupted on the 4th when the dissolution was announced, and asked the government to guarantee the conditions of the sanctity of space in accordance with the rules.
ECOWAS includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Togo.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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