The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) today “strongly” condemned the preventive detention of the president of the National People’s Assembly of Guinea-Bissau and president of the PAIGC, Domingos Simões Pereira, and called for his immediate and unconditional release.
In a statement, the CPLP recommended the “urgent resumption of the constitutional order”, considering this an “indispensable condition for the full restoration of peace and stability” in Guinea-Bissau, a country that is currently suspended from the organization.
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The CPLP also reaffirmed “its firm commitment to defending the basic principles and values of the democratic rule of law enshrined in its founding acts, which characterize the Community.”
Domingos Simões Pereira has been detained since Friday in the cells of the Second Station of the Public Order Police (POP) in Bissau, following a period under house arrest.
