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Prominent Burkina Faso Activist Feared Forcibly Disappeared

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 4th, 2024. © 2024 Ute Grabowsky/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was arrested by men claiming to be gendarmes in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, sparking fears he has been forcibly disappeared.Barry, 48, is the national secretary of the opposition political group Servir et Non se Servir (“To Serve and Not Serve Oneself,” or SENS).According to Barry’s colleagues and the media, Barry was arrested while attending a meeting with officials in Saaba, a district…

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