{"id":220424,"date":"2026-01-14T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-convicted-former-guinean-official-dies-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:59:37","slug":"guinea-convicted-former-guinean-official-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-convicted-former-guinean-official-dies-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Convicted Former Guinean Official Dies in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>Justice Stalled in 2009 Stadium Massacre Proceedings<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Col. Claude Pivi, Guinea&#8217;s former minister for presidential security and one of the men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/07\/26\/guineas-2009-stadium-massacre-trial#howmany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/07\/26\/guineas-2009-stadium-massacre-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark trial<\/a> for rapes and killings committed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinea<\/a> in 2009, reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/enquete224.com\/2026\/01\/06\/urgent-claude-pivi-est-decede-source-officiel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died in custody<\/a> in a hospital on January 6, 2026, of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">On July 31, 2024, a Guinean court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/07\/31\/guinea-landmark-verdict-stadium-mass-killings-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a verdict<\/a> for the September 28, 2009 massacre, in which security forces attacked peaceful demonstrators at a stadium in the country&#8217;s capital Conakry, killing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140009.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>Justice Stalled in 2009 Stadium Massacre Proceedings Col. Claude Pivi, Guinea&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,11361,6868,4715,1124,6016,257,5092,5115,254],"class_list":["post-220424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicted","tag-dies","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-guinean","tag-news","tag-official","tag-prison","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220424","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=220424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}