{"id":149119,"date":"2025-08-26T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=149119"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:19:55","slug":"guinea-appeals-trial-stadium-massacre-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/149119-guinea-appeals-trial-stadium-massacre-headaches.html","title":{"rendered":"In Guinea, appeals trial for stadium massacre causes headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One year after a landmark verdict in the trial of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/tag\/conakry-massacre-trial\">2009 massacre at Conakry stadium<\/a>, an appeals trial remains uncertain. Some are putting their faith in it, some no longer want it, and some are remaining silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>July 31 marked one year since the Dixinn Court of First Instance in Conakry, Guinea, handed down a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/134898-guinea-dadis-camara-convicted-trial-closes-leaving-questions.html\">historic verdict<\/a> in the September 28, 2009 massacre trial. Eight of the twelve defendants were sentenced to jail terms ranging from ten years to life. Four were acquitted. The eight convicted defendants were also ordered to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/143481-guinea-the-state-commits-to-compensating-victims.html\">12 million euros in compensation<\/a> to the 334 civil parties. As soon as the decision was handed down, most of the parties to the trial appealed. But since then, proceedings have not moved forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Court of Appeal had three months to organize a new trial after all parties had filed their appeals. This deadline has now long passed. But victims still believe that an appeal trial will take place and are waiting hopefully for it to happen. Human rights activist Mamadou Kaly Diallo, who became a civil party in this case for acts of torture, continues to believe in it. He is counting on the Guinean authorities\u2019 commitment to organize this trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true that the verdict was welcomed, but we are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the appeal,\u201d says Diallo. \u201cAll parties have lodged appeals: the defence because they believe the charges should not be reclassified as crimes against humanity; the civil parties because several victims were left out; and the prosecution because it believes not all those responsible for the crimes have been convicted, even though the court upheld the principle of command responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hope-for-the-forgotten-victims\">Hope for the forgotten victims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Asmaou Diallo, who heads the Association of 28 September 2009 Victims, Friends and Relations (Avipa), is hoping that victims like herself who were left out by the trial chamber will be compensated. Avipa may well be the biggest association of massacre victims, but a number of its members were omitted from the first instance trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of these forgotten victims blame Avipa and its president. They accuse her of favouritism, of communicating the names of some and not others, without knowing that Diallo herself has been omitted from the compensation programme currently being administered by the country\u2019s authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt Avipa, there are 737 victims. So not all of these people have been taken into account, because the ruling only mentions 334 people,\u201d Diallo explains. \u201cThere are also other associations working with other victims who are not included in the group to be compensated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-pessimists-boycotters-and-those-who-are-silent\">Pessimists, boycotters and those who are silent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the victims, who remain hopeful, lawyers for the civil parties are pessimistic. Alpha Amadou DS Bah, head of the lawyers\u2019 collective that represented Avipa victims before the trial court, no longer believes at all in the process. He thinks the other convicted persons could be pardoned in the same way that Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, head of the military junta at the time of the massacre, was pardoned on March 28, 2025 by presidential decree. \u201cNow that the main person convicted in this case has been pardoned, I think the case has been emptied of all substance and there is no point in continuing with the appeal proceedings,\u201d says Bah, who is coordinator of lawyers for the civil parties. \u201cWe are certain that for the other convicted persons, it is only a matter of time. The appeal trial no longer makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"ArticleNewsletterCTA\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ArticleNewsletterCTATitle\">FIND THIS ARTICLE INTERESTING?<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ArticleNewsletterCTAText\">\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/en\/newsletter\">Sign up now for our (free) newsletter<\/a> to make sure you don't miss out on other publications of this type. \t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\n\n\n<p>Because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/143607-guinea-reparations-for-a-pardon.html\">Camara\u2019s pardon<\/a>, some reject outright any future appeals trial. They refuse to participate even it takes place, at least as long as Camara remains free. This is the position of the defence for Commander Aboubacar Sidiki Diakit\u00e9, alias Toumba, whom the trial court sentenced to ten years in jail. \u201cWhen there is an appeal, it suspends implementation of the decision taken by the first judge. Since the decision is not final, the President [of the Republic] should have waited to exercise the right of pardon,\u201d says Lancin\u00e9 Sylla. \u201cThe consequence of exercising [this] right without the conditions being met is to prevent the appeal trial from taking place. This is obvious, because Captain Dadis, who has been released, will no longer participate in this trial. So the presidential decree spells the end of the appeal trial. In any case, I will not take part in condoning injustice. I have already told my client this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other parties to the trial such as civil parties\u2019 lawyers led by Hamidou Barry, who defended victims not affiliated with AVIPA, did not respond to our requests for comment. The same goes for the authorities, even though they reassured the Deputy Prosecutor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/tribunals\/icc\">International Criminal Court (ICC)<\/a> last May of their willingness to organize the appeal trial. \u201cAs I leave Guinea, I am reassured to know that the trial will continue at the appeal stage, that it will be brought to a conclusion and that reparations for the victims will continue,\u201d ICC Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang said at the end of his visit to Conakry on 19, 20 and 21 May 2025. \u201cThere has been no change of course. The government has demonstrated its willingness to provide the necessary support to the judiciary in its quest for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-first-instance-trial-of-five-other-defendants\">First instance trial of five other defendants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another challenge facing the Guinean justice system is the related trial of five defendants who did not appear at the first trial. This case involves Jean-Louis Kpoghomou, Georges Ol\u00e9mou, Thomas Touaro, Jacques Sagno and Bienvenue Lamah. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/108291-conakry-massacre-trial-toumba-tells-his-part-of-the-truth.html\">According to Aboubacar Sidiki Diakit\u00e9, alias Toumba<\/a>, these military officers and gendarmes were very close to Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in 2009 and allegedly played a role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/107312-we-are-guineans-and-we-will-judge-guineans.html\">September 28 massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All were arrested and detained in November 2022 and referred to the Dixinn Criminal Court for trial. Their lawyers, who argue their innocence, appealed the referral order. The Conakry Appeals Court examined these appeals and dismissed the case in favour of the defendants, with the exception of Colonel Bienvenue Lamah. Dissatisfied with this ruling, the public prosecutor\u2019s office immediately appealed to the Supreme Court. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a July 28 ruling, the Supreme Court rejected the prosecution\u2019s appeal. Defence lawyers say they are currently fighting to secure the release of their clients following that ruling by the country\u2019s highest court. If they succeed, Lamah will be the only one in the dock standing trial at the Dixinn Criminal Court. In his case, all avenues of appeal against the referral order have been exhausted. His lawyer, Z\u00e9z\u00e9 Kalivogui, is eagerly awaiting his client\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe preliminary article of the Criminal Procedure Code states that the defendant must be tried within a reasonable time frame. Based on this principle, under normal circumstances, once a case has been referred to court, the defendant must be tried. However, when the court takes more than five months to hear the case, we are no longer within a reasonable time frame,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is why we are continuing to push for the trial. We are constantly following up with the public prosecutor\u2019s office that organizes it. I believe that the composition of the court has already been decided. We are expecting that the judgment could be in October.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamah was arrested on November 21, 2022 and held in Conakry central prison. At the time of his arrest, he was commander of the Conakry regional gendarmerie.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/144243-we-must-not-drain-a-historic-trial-of-all-its-sap.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Guinee_Doumbouya-Camara-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"In Guinea, Head of State Mamadi Doumbouya has promised reparations for the victims of the 28 September 2009 massacre, but he has also pardoned the main defendant in the trial: Moussa Dadis Camara. Why did he do this? 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