2023-09-07 14:03:46
The Association of Magistrates of Guinea (AMG) has decided to postpone the sit-in that it had planned for Thursday, September 7 in front of the Lower Supreme Court and the demonstration of September 12, to escape mediation from the Superior Council of the judiciary. The decision was taken after a meeting which lasted several hours at the Supreme Court yesterday Wednesday September 6. However, the walkout remains in place. These magistrates who have been on sick leave since mid-August denounce the interference of the Minister of Justice, Charles Wrong, in legal affairs. He had suspended two robins working in Labé, for professional insufficiency. Below is the AMG statement, published at the end of this meeting on September 6. Good reading !
Following the radio press release broadcast by the First President of the Supreme Court, a working meeting bringing together members of the AMG CA, accompanied by members of the crisis exit committee, the CSM and the senior magistrates of the Courts and tribunals, took place is held this Wednesday, September 6, 2023 in the conference room of the Supreme Court from 11:50 a.m. to 6:52 p.m.
The session began with the appointment of Mr. THIAM as moderator in the presence of the Magistrates invited to this meeting, after recalling the context of the situation linked to the crisis arising from the suspension of our colleagues Moussa CAMARA and Cé Avis GAMY respectively Judge and Deputy Prosecutor at the Labé TPI, he gave the floor to the First President of the Supreme Court, president of the session.
Speaking, the First President of the Supreme Court specified that it was on the instructions of the President of the Transition, President of the CSM, that he took the initiative to invite this meeting to resolve the crisis.
At the end of the discussions, the main resolutions of the meeting are as follows:
1-Unanimity regarding the illegal nature of the acts of suspension as well as their publication in the press and on social networks.
2-The need to have approaches to end the crisis legally.
3-The recommendation made to the Supreme Court to render, within a reasonable time, a judgment interpreting the provisions of articles 537 and 590 of the code of criminal procedure.
4-The recommendation made to the CSM to render a decision in principle on the meaning of articles 38 and 39 of law L/054/CNT/2013 relating to the status of Magistrates.
5-The establishment of an ad hoc commission to have the Minister of Justice report the acts of suspension concerning the two Magistrates no later than Monday September 11, 2023.
In view of these resolutions, the AMG Board of Directors and the crisis resolution committee agreed to accede to the request to postpone the sit-in and the march initially planned for September 7 and 12, 2023 respectively, to Friday 15 September 2023.
However, the call for a walkout remains maintained.
For the CA, the communications officer
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