‘This regime believes that the [Kondengui] prison can fix everything,' Maurice Kamto wrote during his detention, emphasizing the regime’s failed attempts to suppress dissent through imprisonment.
Thakeli's video questioning Premier Matekane's job promises resonated with the youth, leading to his arrest for sedition and a police warning against mentioning the PM again.
The meticulous work of the intelligence service has uncovered a major plot being prepared against our country whose ultimate aim is to sow total chaos. According to the plan of the terrorist conspirators, the maneuver was to culminate in an assault on the presidency of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, by a group of soldiers recruited by the nation's enemies.
Near the end of March, Gary Wilder, a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, sent an email about his decision to decline attending a conference at Columbia University, explaining he was doing so because Columbia is "actively colluding with the U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize dissent."
Flamur Noka, general secretary of Berisha's Democratic Party, stated, "Let’s not forget one simple fact. Mr. Berisha is one of the founding fathers of Albanian democracy, of the few to rise up for free speech."