{"id":200840,"date":"2025-06-24T19:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-prominent-critic-of-guinean-junta-abducted-tortured\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:59:52","slug":"guinea-prominent-critic-of-guinean-junta-abducted-tortured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-prominent-critic-of-guinean-junta-abducted-tortured\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Prominent Critic of Guinean Junta Abducted, Tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Impartial Investigation Needed into Abuses Against Mohamed Traor\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinea<\/a> early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traor\u00e9, a prominent lawyer and former bar association president, assaulted him and his daughter, and then forced him into a car and drove away. Traor\u00e9 had been publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinee360.com\/13\/01\/2025\/cnt-me-mohamed-traore-demissionne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critical<\/a> of the country&#8217;s military junta, which took power in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">After his abduction in the capital, Conakry, Traor\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/guineematin.com\/2025\/06\/21\/guinee-me-mohamed-traore-retrouve-a-bangouya-apres-son-enlevement-famille\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was found<\/a> hours later&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506240135.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impartial Investigation Needed into Abuses Against Mohamed Traor\u00e9 In Guinea early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traor\u00e9, a prominent lawyer and former bar association president, assaulted him and his daughter, and then forced him into a car and drove away. Traor\u00e9 had been publicly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630360:903abf1384e06cb4fd6516af2bd70dfe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[3271,258,256,12863,4715,1124,6016,28579,257,22489,254,12291],"class_list":["post-200840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-critic","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-guinean","tag-junta","tag-news","tag-prominent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tortured"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630360:903abf1384e06cb4fd6516af2bd70dfe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}