Enforced disappearances as a means of repression by military authorities in West Africa

Rights group condemns use of enforced disappearances in West Africa to repress political dissent

Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that military authorities in West Africa have been increasingly using enforced disappearances as a means of repression against civil and political activists who criticize the government. The organization noted that the military and security forces in Mali, Niger, Guinea, and Burkina Faso resorted to unlawful detentions and enforced disappearances to silence activists and journalists who opposed those in …

Enforced disappearances as a means of repression by military authorities in West Africa

The military regimes in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Niger are working to silence any criticism of the authorities in power. To suppress dissenting voices, the defence and security forces regularly resort to enforced disappearances and unlawful detentions, as confirmed by Amnesty International’s latest Annual Report.Since 9 July 2024, two Guinean activists from the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (Front national pour la défe…

Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax., April 29, 2025.– The Attorney General's Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) obtained a 300-year historic prison sentence against H.M.G., former municipal secretary of the San Francisco Jayacaxtepec Agency, for his responsibility for the crime of aggravated enforced disappearance of five persons, committed in 2017 in Totontepec Villa de Morelos, Mixe District. According to the criminal case, on January 28, 2017, the victi…

The court imposed on him the payment of a fine and compensation for the damage in an abstract manner for each of the five victims.

Oaxaca de Juárez on April 29, 2025.- The Attorney General's Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) obtained a 300-year sentence of imprisonment against a male person identified as H.M.G., responsible for the crime of aggravated enforced disappearance, in violation of five persons, committed in 2017, in the jurisdiction of Totontepec Villa de Morelos, in the Mixe District. According to the criminal case, the events occurred on January 28, 2017, whe…