DETAINED FOR 78 DAYS WITHOUT BEING CHARGED

IVORYCOAST (ABIDAJN): The former representative of the Plateau district (Abidjan) and member of the main opposition party (FPI), Mady Bouabré is languishing since Monday, August 6, 2012 in a hospice for the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (Dst) based in Abidjan-Cocody. This is exactly 2 months and 17 days since this  representative has been detained by president Ouattara regime without being formally charged. Visits from his lawyer and his family are forbidden and according to police sources, his health is deteriorating given the inhumane conditions of his detention. According to a police source, "Ouattara 's regime has no evidence." against the former representative Mady Bouabre. But he has been held illegally by Ouattara's regime. Indeed, it was Ouattara's zealous Minister of interior Hamed Bakayoko who ordered the arrest and detention of Mady Bouabré, Monday, August 6, whereas the former representative was returning from the  Ivorian-Ghanaian border where he accompanied his wife, Bouabré Ehivet Victoire, younger sister of the former First Lady, Simone Gbagbo. According to eyewitness accounts, on the way back, after leaving his family in Ghanaian territory, Mady Bouabré was recognized by president Ouattara Customs as a former representative of the main oposition party ( FPI). He was arrested and taken to the police station. Once there, he was questioned by the police officer on duty who let him go after realizing Mady Bouabre was not the subject of any arrest warrant issued by Ouattara regime. Continuing his journey back towards Abidjan, the former representative of the Plateau district was again arrested in the town of Assouba by an armed pro-Ouattara militia (FRCI). The pro-Ouattara forces took him back to the Ivorian-Ghanaian border where he came from and alerted Ouattara's zealous minister of interior who ordered that Mady Bouabre be arrested.
Ouattara's regime, in a rare attempt of silencing the opposition, has arrested more oppostion leaders and sympathizers since Mady Bouabre was arrested on August 6, 2012. Opposition newspapers and offices have also been vandalized by Ouattara's armed militia groups drawing criticism from human rights groups and several NGOs operating in IvoryCoast.
Mady Bouabre has been detained for 78 days without being charged; his family has not seen him since he was detained and he is not allowed an attorney visit.