2023-08-14 21:37:19
The Board of Directors of the Association of Magistrates of Guinea (AMG) denounced through a press release, this Monday, August 14, 2023, the summons of the magistrates of the Court of First Instance of Labé to the Ministry of Justice following a decision duly rendered.
The AMG indicates that in responding to this summons, the magistrate who presided over the hearing and handed down a decision to sentence him to ten months’ imprisonment, including two firm, was surprised to meet the person he had just “placed under warrant of deposit, within the precincts of the Ministry of Justice. The judge would have refused “to be confronted with this condemned”. Since then, he has been the subject of “harassment” for the purpose of being heard.
For the AMG, “these manifestly illegal actions” constitute “interference by the Minister of Justice in the management of judicial affairs”. Thus, it denounces a violation of paragraph 3 of article 16 of law 054 on the status of magistrates which stipulates that: “No account can be asked of judges about the decisions they render or in which they participate, nor can any instruction be given to them for the settlement of matters submitted to them.”
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