Djibouti: Six Political Opponents in Dikhil Released but Still At Risk of New Conviction By the Court of Appeal

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On 11 October 2015, the Djibouti Court of Appeal accepted the request to release the young members of the Union for National Salvation (USN) - the opposition coalition - and the Opposition Youth Movement (MJO), as well as two USN leaders, arrested on 18 September for having participated in a demonstration and arbitrarily detained in Gabode prison since 4 October following a first instance trial.

On 4 October, Abdulkarim Djama Guedi, Hamze Reyeh Hassan, Yahye Elmi Younis and the elected USN deputy Ibrahim Hassan Abdi and USN leader in Djibouti, Said Ali Miguil were sentenced by the Court of Djibouti City to one year suspended sentence for having participated in an "illegal demonstration", while Mahamoud Robleh Miré was acquitted. None of them, however, was released at the end of the trial, despite Article 362 of the Djiboutian Code of Criminal Procedure, which provides for the immediate release of any person acquitted or sentenced with a suspended sentence.

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