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UN urges end to arbitrary detentions in Guinea-Bissau

Brigadier General Baute Na Mam with high ranking officers from different branches of the Guinea Bissau army during the swearing-in ceremony of the newly formed government at the Presidential Palace in Bissau on 29 November, 2025. © PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP

The UN rights office welcomed Friday the release of six opposition members detained since last month's coup in Guinea-Bissau but insisted all arbitrary detentions in the west African country must end.

The six people freed were close associates of Domingos Simoes Pereira, head of the PAIGC party that led Guinea-Bissau to independence from Portugal in 1974.

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