On tour within the country, the Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, Alphonse Charles Wright said that the preacher, Ishmael Nanfo Diaby has the right to pray in the language that seems right to him, since that is conferred by the laws of the country.
An outing that delighted his lawyer Me Salif Beavogui in more ways than one. His client had been banned from praying in public by the Guinean Islamic League since 2020. “This Arabic preacher is the subject of threats, persecution, intimidation of all kinds for his religious faith. He was assaulted, arrested imprisoned with unspeakable injustice. Subsequently, the General Secretariat of the Islamic League took a decision on June 30, 2020 to ban all religious activity in the Republic of Guinea… Faced with this unjust decision, of serious and intolerable violation of the law, in particular articles 1, 10 and 11 of the constitution of the Republic of Guinea which makes Guinea a secular and indivisible republic. Article 10 of the dissolved constitution indicates that every individual has the right to freedom of expression and opinion. So Nanfo crushed any kind of injustice… It was unacceptable in law. Today, with the release of the Keeper of the Seals, we are immediately going to appeal,” he explains.
Me Salif Beavogui promises to file a complaint once morest this decision taken in 2020 prohibiting his client from performing prayers in the Maninka (N’nko) language: “We have the decision of the Supreme Court in the file of the procedure and we will return to the charge and seize the Minister of Justice so that he can enjoin the Attorney General at the Supreme Court to open this file, for “excess of power and for false application of the law”. We are going to ask for it and we think we will get it. It’s really comforting,” he concluded.
