Burkina Faso Rights Defender Abducted

FILE - Daouda Diallo, one of Burkina Faso's most prominent human rights defenders, poses for a photograph in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Feb. 3, 2022. Diallo was taken to an unknown location by men who accosted him in Ouagadougou on Dec. 1, 2023, rights groups say.

A prominent human rights defender in Burkina Faso has been abducted by unknown individuals, rights groups have announced, in what activists say could be the latest attempt by the military government to target dissidents using a controversial law.