A Human Rights group, CISC, is calling on authorities in Burkina Faso to explain the death in detention of alleged terrorism suspects.
The group of 12 persons detained overnight on suspicion of terrorism were found dead in their police cells last week.
At a recent press conference, the rights group denounced the untimely deaths and accused the security forces of “coldly executing” the detainees.
One of them is Aziz Diallo, a sitting member of parliament and cousin of a victim: “… they suspected that it was him so they took off the plastic covering and saw that he had been shot in the head……
“We cannot, under the pretext of the fight against terrorism, take people, individuals – 60-year-olds, 70-year-olds, children – and just kill them without any form of trial, without any form of explanation.
That is not doing the fight against terrorism any favours.”
