{"id":228913,"date":"2026-03-29T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-convicted-guinea-stadium-massacre-figure-dies-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:49:20","slug":"guinea-convicted-guinea-stadium-massacre-figure-dies-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-convicted-guinea-stadium-massacre-figure-dies-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Convicted Guinea Stadium Massacre Figure Dies in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Aboubacar Sidiki Diakit\u00e9, a key figure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyxe6n297ro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a>\u00a0of crimes against humanity in Guinea&#8217;s 2009 stadium massacre, has died in custody due to a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">He was serving a 10-year sentence for his role in the violence in Conakry, where more than 150 people were killed. At least 109 women were also raped. While in custody, Diakit\u00e9 remained a controversial figure, creating a political party and attempting to run for president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to the prison administration, Diakit\u00e9 was declared&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270094.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>Aboubacar Sidiki Diakit\u00e9, a key figure\u00a0convicted\u00a0of crimes against humanity in Guinea&#8217;s 2009 stadium massacre, has died in custody due to a medical emergency. He was serving a 10-year sentence for his role in the violence in Conakry, where more than 150 people were killed. At least 109 women were also raped. While in custody, Diakit\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228914,"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\/00520225:298f2e379a8acaf90b9ff8c5d1c4e3f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,11361,11828,6868,6415,4715,1124,2075,257,254,9328],"class_list":["post-228913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicted","tag-custody","tag-dies","tag-figure","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-massacre","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00520225:298f2e379a8acaf90b9ff8c5d1c4e3f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228913","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=228913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}