Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi, November 8, 2023) - Burkina Faso's military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Between November 4 and 5, 2023, the Burkinabe security forces notified in writing or by telephone at least a dozen journalists, civil society activists, and opposition party members that they will be conscripted to participate in government security operations across the country. The transitional military authorities assert that the conscription orders are authorized under the April 13 "general mobilization," part of a plan to recapture territory lost to Islamist armed groups, which control roughly half of the country. The plan seeks to create a "legal framework for all actions" to be ta
Burkina Faso s military junta is abusing an emergency law to conscript perceived dissidents and critics to join a deadly fight against militants linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic State, warned. -November 09, 2023 at 08:01 am EST
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Burkina Faso's military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said
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