NGO Calls on Guinea to Release Activist

A prominent human-rights leader is still behind bars in Guinea, almost two weeks after special service agents detained him.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the immediate release of Mouctar Diallo, a human-rights activist imprisoned in the Guinean capital Conakry.

Human Rights Watch West Africa Researcher, Corinne Dufka, says the ruling National Council for Democracy and Development wants to silence political opposition.

"We see no reason why he has been picked up. This is a well-respected individual. So it appears that this detention - we do not know if he has been arrested, we have not heard that he has actually been charged with anything - appears to really be a campaign of harassment against opposition voices," says Dufka.

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