Niger: Further information on Fear of torture or ill-treatment/incommunicado detention/ prisoner of conscience: Ibrahim Manzo Diallo

Niger: Further information on Fear of torture or ill-treatment/incommunicado detention/ prisoner of conscience: Ibrahim Manzo Diallo

Index Number: AFR 43/004/2007
Date Published: 7 November 2007
Categories: Niger, Africa

On 31 October 2007, newspaper editor Ibrahim Manzo Diallo was formally charged with criminal association as he is accused of links with the Mouvement des Nig�riens pour la justice, an armed opposition movement formed of members of the Tuareg ethnic community. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his peaceful and legitimate activities as a journalist.