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G/Bissau ex army chief in prison six months after mutiny
Friday, 01 October 2010 15:23
The former head of the army of Guinea Bissau is still being held in prison without a formal
charge six months after a mutiny led by his deputy, a rights activist and a judge said Thursday.Admiral Jose Zamora Induta, arrested on April 1 but still not brought before a judge, is held in a military garrison at Mansoa, 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the capital Bissau, a rights activist said on condition of anonymity.
"Zamora is still in prison in Mansoa, but his conditions of detention have been improved. He is regularly visited by a doctor," said the activist from the Human Rights League of Guinea Bissau.
"We continue to demand that he be presented before a judge because until now there has been no formal accusation against him and his companion in misfortune, Colonel Samba Djalo," he said.
Djalo was the chief of the military secret service.
The international community, lead by the European Union, has made the freeing of Induta a precondition for the release of aid intended to reform the security forces.
A judge, also speaking anonymously, said there had been a "procedural problem" with the case.
"We did not know if he should be brought before a military or a civil jurisdiction. Today everything is clear. The admiral will be judged by a civil court," he said, without giving details, including of the charge.
Induta was arrested by General Antonio Indjai, his deputy who is now the army chief and who accused him of abuse of power and using large sums of money for military rations for his own benefit.
Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior was held for several hours the same day in what initially appeared to be a coup, and threatened with death before being released.
The troubled west African nation has been plagued by coups since independence from Portugal in 1974 and instability has attracted South American drug cartels that use the country as a transit point to Europe.
Source: AFP
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