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The conclusion is based on extensive research and analysis of the factors holding up the investigation. International partners – including the European Union (EU), United States, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – also should increase pressure and support for justice to be done.<br/> <br/> <span style="display: none"> </span></p></div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="attachment attachment-before"> <div class="view view-taxonomy-landing-page view-id-taxonomy_landing_page view-display-id-attachment_1 view-dom-id-2"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/guinea-step-efforts-ensure-justice-stadium-massacre">Guinea: Step Up Efforts to Ensure Justice for Stadium Massacre</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 5, 2012</span> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/16/guinea-ensure-justice-treasury-chief-s-death">Guinea: Ensure Justice in Treasury Chief’s Death</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 16, 2012</span> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/29/guinea-stadium-massacre-victims-await-justice">Guinea: Stadium Massacre Victims Await Justice</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 29, 2012</span> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/02/09/guinea-progress-massacre-probe">Guinea: Progress in Massacre Probe</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 9, 2012</span> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view-footer"> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/by-issue/news-filter/104">More news »</a> </div> <div class="attachment attachment-after"> <div class="view view-taxonomy-landing-page view-id-taxonomy_landing_page view-display-id-attachment_2 view-dom-id-4"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <h3>Featured Content</h3> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-related-audio-feature-nid"> <span class="field-content"><div class="view view-nodereference-related-audio view-id-nodereference_related_audio view-display-id-block_2 view-dom-id-3"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/audio/2009/12/16/massacre-guinea-rights-watch-23">Massacre in Guinea -- Rights Watch #23</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 16 2009 - 16:47</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-audiofile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><div class="swftools-wrapper wijering4-mediaplayer"><div id="swfobject2-id-13646776551" class="swftools swfobject2"> <p>You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! 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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501001053im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-crop-200w-133h/media/images/report-covers/guinea1209.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-crop-200w-133h"/></a></span> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="view-footer"> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/by-issue/publications/104">More >></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-region-separator"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-views-panes pane-taxonomy-landing-page-panel-pane-4 pane-taxonomy-news-listing"> <h2 class="pane-title">Guinea</h2> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="view view-taxonomy-landing-page view-id-taxonomy_landing_page view-display-id-panel_pane_4 view-taxonomy-news-listings view-dom-id-8"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/guinea-step-efforts-ensure-justice-stadium-massacre">Guinea: Step Up Efforts to Ensure Justice for Stadium Massacre</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 5, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>The Guinean government should increase support to the domestic investigation of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/12/16/bloody-monday-0">September 28, 2009 massacre, rapes, and other abuses</a> to enable fair, credible prosecutions of the crimes without further delay, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The conclusion is based on extensive research and analysis of the factors holding up the investigation. International partners – including the European Union (EU), United States, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – also should increase pressure and support for justice to be done.<br/> <br/> <span style="display: none"> </span></p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/16/guinea-ensure-justice-treasury-chief-s-death">Guinea: Ensure Justice in Treasury Chief’s Death</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 16, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Guinean authorities should speedily and transparently bring to justice those responsible for the November 9, 2012 killing of the country’s treasury director. Aissatou Boiro, director of the Office of the Treasury, was investigating a high-level corruption case, her co-workers told Human Rights Watch.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/29/guinea-stadium-massacre-victims-await-justice">Guinea: Stadium Massacre Victims Await Justice</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 29, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Hundreds of victims of the 2009 massacre, rapes, and other abuses by security forces in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/africa/guinea">Guinea</a> have yet to see justice done on the eve of the third anniversary of the attacks. The Guinean government should increase support for the domestic investigation of the crimes so that those responsible can be held to account without further delay. <br/> <br/>  </p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/02/09/guinea-progress-massacre-probe">Guinea: Progress in Massacre Probe</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 9, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The decision by investigative judges in Guinea to file charges against a high-level military official allegedly implicated in grave violations of human rights during a massacre of protesters in 2009 is an important step toward ensuring justice for the victims. Security forces were implicated in the killings of more than 150 opposition members and the rape of over 100 women in the aftermath of a peaceful demonstration.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/21/guinea-intensify-attention-human-rights-challenges">Guinea: Intensify Attention to Human Rights Challenges</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 21, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">President Alpha Condé of Guinea should intensify efforts to confront chronic rule of law problems that sustained decades of abuse. Condé completes a year in office on December 21, 2011.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/15/letter-monseigneur-coulibaly-and-el-haj-camara-truth-telling-and-reconciliation">Letter to Monseigneur Coulibaly and El Haj Camara on Truth-Telling and Reconciliation</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 15, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Letter to Monseigneur Coulibaly and El Hadj Camara regarding the Guinean government’s efforts to establish a truth-telling and reconciliation mechanism.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/11/guinea-investigate-detention-intimidation-activists">Guinea: Investigate Detention, Intimidation of Activists</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 11, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Guinean government should investigate the role of two high-level officials in the apparent illegal detention and intimidation of members of a prominent Guinean human rights group. The actions of the Conakry governor, Sékou Resco Camara, and a high-level police colonel, Amadou Camara, amount to both an abuse of authority and a clear attempt to interfere in the independence of the judiciary.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/27/guinea-2-years-stadium-massacre-unpunished">Guinea: 2 Years On, Stadium Massacre Unpunished</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 27, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>No one has been held to account two years after Guinean security forces gunned down unarmed protesters at an opposition rally in Conakry, the capital. The Guinean government needs to do more to ensure justice for victims of the massacre on September 28, 2009.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/06/09/ilo-adopt-new-treaty-combat-child-labor">ILO: Adopt New Treaty to Combat Child Labor</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jun 9, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Governments, trade unions, and employers' organizations should combat child labor by adopting a new international treaty on the rights of domestic workers.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/05/24/guinea-nation-crossroads">Guinea: A Nation at the Crossroads</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 24, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">President Alpha Condé, who took power in December 2010, should address the profound human rights and governance problems that have underscored decades of abuse in Guinea. A Human Rights report identifies the main factors that have contributed to years of impunity and recommends steps Guinea should take to promote good governance and to end the history of abuse.</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news-all/104">more documents on this topic »</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/contact-us">Contact Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501001053/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501001053/https://secure.hrw.org/site/c.nlIWIgN2JwE/b.8370149/k.2592/Donate__Help_Defend_Human_Rights/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?msource=n">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-views-hrw_footer-block_1" class="clear-block block block-views"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="view view-hrw-footer view-id-hrw_footer view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-10"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch<br/> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor<br/> New York, NY 10118-3299<br/> USA<br/> Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700<br/> <br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501001053/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs">Employment</a></strong></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/africa">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130501001053/http://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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