“Burkina Faso: Journalists and Activists Targeted by Government Conspiracy”

2023-04-30 02:40:18

Espionage and destabilization. Wendpouire Charles Sawadogo would be charged with the offense of ” intelligence with foreign countries with a view to dismissing the regime in place ».

In a press release published on Saturday evening, the “Collective of journalists, activists and opinion leaders victims of threats in Burkina Faso” denounces ” a cabal set up from scratch by the authorities. ” A conspiracy to extinguish a disturbing activist. »

The personalities who are members of this collective are “ the target of numerous death threats and violence for the simple fact of having an opinion contrary to the wishes of those in power “. They live, according to the press release, in daily anguish and suffer relentlessness, repression and harassment, through spinning, tapping of telephones, insults, defamation or slander.

The collective demands the immediate release of Wendpouire Charles Sawadogo. He asks the authorities to stop this hunt for journalists and activists. The latter, he judges, only use their constitutional and democratic right to express themselves on the affairs of the country.

And to warn against the current projects of arrests of personalities registered on a blacklist, of which the collective says to have taken note.

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