{"id":19434,"date":"2024-11-13T10:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/burkina-faso-lobservatoire-salue-la-liberation-de-gontran-some-et-christian-kabore-apres-26-jours-de-captivite\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:12:59","slug":"burkina-faso-the-observatory-welcomes-the-release-of-gontran-some-and-christian-kabore-after-26-days-in-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/burkina-faso-the-observatory-welcomes-the-release-of-gontran-some-and-christian-kabore-after-26-days-in-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso: The Observatory welcomes the release of Gontran Som\u00e9 and Christian Kabor\u00e9 \u2013 after 26 days in captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burkinabe lawyers Gontran Som\u00e9 and Christian Kabor\u00e9 were kidnapped between Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso on 10 October 2024.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>They were released on 5 November 2024, after 26 days in captivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Gontran Som\u00e9 and Mr Christian Kabor\u00e9 were travelling to Bobo-Dioulasso from Ouagadougou. The lawyers had to change their route due to bad weather, which made the road impassable.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers\u2019 car crossed the path of a non-state armed group in an area renowned for its insecurity. One of the passengers with Gontran Som\u00e9 and Christian Kabor\u00e9, who was spared by the members of this group, reported their abduction.<\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso\u2019s lawyers operate in a context marked by serious and multiple threats. They are particularly subject to the pressure exerted by the transitional government and the authorities on legal professionals. Lawyers working on sensitive cases, particularly human rights cases, often face intimidation and even repression. In addition, the crisis-ridden judicial system does not always respect procedures, thereby undermining the defence of fundamental rights.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, attacks by armed groups pose a direct threat to lawyers in several parts of the country. Travel becomes risky and exposes lawyers to physical danger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Observatory welcomes the release of<\/strong>\u00a0lawyers Gontran Som\u00e9 and Christian Kabor\u00e9, as well as the courage of our colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Observatory remains very concerned<\/strong>\u00a0about the increasing violence and risks facing the legal profession in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Observatory urges the Burkina Faso authorities<\/strong>\u00a0to guarantee the security and integrity of lawyers throughout the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkinabe lawyers Gontran Som\u00e9 and Christian Kabor\u00e9 were kidnapped between Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso on 10 October 2024.\u00a0They were released on 5 November 2024, after 26 days in captivity. Mr Gontran Som\u00e9 and Mr Christian Kabor\u00e9 were travelling to Bobo-Dioulasso from Ouagadougou. The lawyers had to change their route due to bad weather, which made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nachrichten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19451,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/19451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}