Guinea has become abolitionist after the adoption on 4 July 2016 by the Parliament of a law reforming the Criminal Code and removing the death penalty from sentences available to judges.

In 2017, this process was finalized by the adoption of a new Code of Military Justice, which also removed death penalty from applicable sentences. The country was previously retentionist but had not carried out any execution since 2001 and between 1984 and 2001. While Guinea has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1978, it has yet to ratify its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2).

1-2 June 2018: In partnership with Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) and Culture pour la paix et la justice (CPJ), PGA organized a regional parliamentary seminar entitled “Abolition of the death penalty in Africa: the role of parliamentarians”, in Kinshasa (DRC). This event was attended by Hon. Fodé Marega, PGA Member, who committed to call on the government to ratify the Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2).

19-20 December 2016: PGA’s partners Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) and the Federation of Actions of Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT) organised a workshop on the abolition of the death penalty in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), which was attended by Hon. Fodé Marega, PGA Member (Guinea).