Guinea lawyers begin strike over ‘arbitrary arrests’

Lawyers in Guinea have announced a two-week strike beginning yesterday Tuesday to protest what they say are the “arbitrary arrests” of Guineans by the military government. Two leading members of the civil society group, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), were arrested last Tuesday. They were planning a protest to pressure the military junta, led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, to return the country to democratic rule. This, after a junta spokesperson said the transition had no time limit. Daouda Mohamed Camara, editor-in-chief at Espace FM, tells VOA’s James Butty, the strike will likely disrupt the ongoing trial of the 2009 stadium massacre which is supposed to conclude on July 31