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Cote d'Ivoire: Hundreds in Detention After Election Unrest - Amnesty International
AI London, 26 March 2021
Six detainees allegedly tortured while in custody Overuse of pre-trial detentions and violation of fair trials Dire conditions of detention aggravated by COVID-19 Progress noted in… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Alleged Mastermind of Duékoué 2011 Massacre Goes on Trial
RFI, 25 March 2021
On 29 March 2011, a militia supporting the newly-elected Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is alleged to have murdered more than 800 civilians in the western city of… Read more »
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Liberia: Ivorian Refugees in Liberia Struggle to Get a Helping Hand
RFI, 24 February 2021
Ivorian Ruth Sayne, 33, escaped the post-election violence in Cote d'Ivoire in 2011 and fled to neighboring Liberia with her husband, a farmer. While life was hard in the refugee… Read more »
Hundreds Still Jailed Since Cote d'Ivoire 2020 Presidential Polls
A report from Amnesty International says hundreds of people in Côte d'Ivoire are languishing in dire conditions in prison after being arrested during violence and election-related protests last year, including many in pre-trial detention with limited access to lawyers. The Rights group says it was not possible to ascertain the exact number of people currently in detention in the context of these events as the authorities did not provide this information, and Amnesty delegates were not allowed to visit the prisons despite a formal request. Violence errupted during ensured during the October 31, 2020 presidential elections that saw President Alassane Ouattara re-elected for a third term with a reported 94% of the vote in the controversial election, which the main opposition parties boycotted.
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Rights group, Human Rights Watch has called on authorities in the country to urgently investigate the deaths of more than 50 people in the political and intercommunal violence that ... Read more »
