Security forces in Guinea’s capital, Conakry have kidnapped an investigative journalist, Habib Marouane Kamara.
His wife and his lawyer disclosed this to newsmen as the military regime continues to tighten its grip on independent media.
Kamara, the editor-in-chief of the online investigative outlet lerevelateur224.com, was headed to meet with a businessman and a friend in Conakry.
His wife, Mariama Lamarana Diallo, told journalists that according to the friend who was with her husband, that they were stopped by men wearing security force uniforms in a pickup.
The policemen broke the rear windshield and took Kamara out of the vehicle by force.
The men beat Kamara with batons until he fainted, and then picked him up and threw him in their truck, and drove off, Diallo said. Kamara’s friend was also forced into the police vehicle, but was then released and has gone into hiding.
Kamara’s wife and his lawyer, Salifou Beavogui, said they have not heard from Kamara since the incident.
