Guinea: Convicted Former Guinean Official Dies in Prison

Justice Stalled in 2009 Stadium Massacre Proceedings

Col. Claude Pivi, Guinea’s former minister for presidential security and one of the men convicted in a landmark trial for rapes and killings committed in Guinea in 2009, reportedly died in custody in a hospital on January 6, 2026, of natural causes.

On July 31, 2024, a Guinean court issued a verdict for the September 28, 2009 massacre, in which security forces attacked peaceful demonstrators at a stadium in the country’s capital Conakry, killing…