Leading Lawyer, Guy Herve Kam, Abducted In Burkina Faso

On Wednesday evening, shortly before midnight at Ouagadougou airport, Me Guy-Hervé Kam was arrested by two men in plain clothes as he was disembarking from an Air Burkina flight from Bobo-Dioulasso. The individuals then took him away in an unmarked car.

It was only an hour later that his family received a call from the arrested man. Using his own mobile phone, he informed his relatives, including his wife, that he was at the National Security and that he was fine, without being able to say what the reason for his arrest was.

Since then, no news from this leading figure of the Burkinabe bar, a former member of Balai citoyen, who has since become national coordinator of the political movement Sens .

Maitre Kam is part of the collective of lawyers who had succeeded in invalidating several military requisitions deemed illegal by the Burkinabe justice system. In addition, Guy-Hervé Kam, in a recent interview with the newspaper Le Pays , was very critical of the political and social situation in Faso. Asked about individual freedoms, he replied that they were " gagged ".

According to our information, a delegation made up of relatives or members of his party are due to go to the National Security office during the day to try to make contact with an authority or Guy-Hervé Kam himself.