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The Burkina Faso military junta is increasingly abducting civil society activists and political opponents as part of its crackdown on peaceful dissent.

Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi, November 8, 2023) - Burkina Faso's military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Between November 4 and 5, 2023, the Burkinabe security forces notified in writing or by telephone at least a dozen journalists, civil society activists, and opposition party members that they will be conscripted to...

Burkina Faso's military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said

Burkina Faso's military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent.

Cela fait deux semaines que le gouvernement burkinabé procède à des coupures d’internet dans le pays. Dans un communiqué publié le 22 novembre 2021, le ministère de la Communication et des relations avec le Parlement a tenté de justifier leur acte en invoquant des obligations de défense nationale et de sécurité publique telles que prévues par les lois nationales. Ainsi,