• Kidnapping on August 29, 2023 just before the coup d'état in Gabon of Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo by the military junta

• Wrongly accused to legitimize the putsch

• Arbitrarily detained, without contact with their relatives or trial

• Torture and inhumane conditions

• Illegal arrest

• Arbitrary detention

• Lack of presumption of innocence

• Inhumane conditions of detention

• Secret detention

• Incommunicado

• Torture

• Dispossession

• Lack of fair and equitable trial

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• Fabrication of evidence 

• Diffamation 

• Unfounded charges 

• Justice under orders

• Deprived of his freedom

• Locked in his residence

• Under constant surveillance by the military

• Deprived of means of communication

• Sequestration and torture of Jalil & Bilal Bongo, sons of Ali & Sylvia Bongo for 10 months.

• Sequestration of Noureddin Bongo's wife and their 3 children (7 years old, 4 years old and 1 year old) for 5 months

• All deprived of means of communication and sequestered by the military.

• Signatures of asset transfers and blank wire transfers under torture

• Spoliation of the Bongo family properties by those close to the government

• Illegal occupation of the family properties by relatives of the new government

• Illegal seizure of documents