Sadly, we’re dealing with a brand new illustration of a coverage that, in truth, goals to take away each opposition and each discordant voice in Benin. Sadly, this has penalties as a result of the particular person we’re defending is in an especially fragile state, remoted, with out the potential for having a honest trial. And there’s a sense that President Talon is sweeping the rule of regulation with worrying ease. It is clearly as much as him to repair the process, to repair the destiny of the process even earlier than any investigation takes place. And at the moment we don’t make an apology, however solely the correct to an open, honest trial during which the particular person can defend himself, and above all beneath regular and never inhumane circumstances as is at the moment the case. I remind you that she doesn’t have the chance to see her legal professionals, not the chance to see relations in a traditional manner and she or he is thrown right into a notably fragile state which makes us urge the worldwide neighborhood to essentially strive to make it doable once more that there are honest procedures in Benin.
Maître Antoine Vey, lawyer for Reckya Madougou
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