Question 17391 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Thomas Portes draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the fate of Mr. Mamadou Aliou Bah, president and founder of the Liberal Democratic Movement (MODEL) known as one of the figures of the new generation of political opposition in Guinea, committed to strengthening democracy and improving governance. Author, speaker, his career has earned him international notoriety and several distinctions. In 2024, Mamadou Aliou Bah was arrested and prosecuted for “insulting the head of state” after criticizing the transitional authorities. In January 2025, he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and was reportedly imprisoned, according to the little information available, at the central prison in Conakry. On June 25, 2026, the ECOWAS Court of Justice found that his rights had been violated and ordered his immediate release. Gold This decision has still not been implemented to this day. The situation of Mamadou Aliou Bah takes place in a context of widespread repression of dissident voices in Guinea. Since Mamadi Doumbouya took power and despite promises of democratization in Guinea, the human rights situation in the country has continued to deteriorate. Associative actors, journalists and opposition figures in Guinea or in exile tirelessly warn of the multiplication of measures put in place by the junta to restrict individual and collective freedoms, including the dissolution of civil organizations and political parties, the ban on demonstrations, the temporary restriction of access to the internet and the systematic closure of opposition media. In December 2025, the Turn the Page movement presented a detailed report documenting serious violations of human rights and public freedoms in Guinea over the period from 2022 to 2025. This document establishes the involvement of the military authorities in multiple criminal offenses: “arbitrary arrests and detentions of dissident voices, serious injuries inflicted during law enforcement operations, acts of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment and kidnappings arbitrary acts, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions.” Failure to respect the decision of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, that is to say an international court, dangerously reinforces the climate of impunity in which the Guinean authorities ignore any commitment to respect international law and human rights. However, Guinea is one of the founding states of ECOWAS - Community of States of West Africa, created in 1975. The release of the founder of MODEL is a major issue for freedom of expression and the independence of justice in Guinea. The MP thus challenges the Minister on the need for France to position itself in favor of the immediate release of Mr. Mamadou Aliou Bah. Il questions him on the measures that France intends to implement in order to obtain the application of the decision of the ECOWAS Court of Justice at a time when political, economic and security relations between the two countries are intensifying. Finally, he alerts him to the democratic disintegration taking place in Guinea, at a time of gradual normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and asks him for his position on the subject.

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