# Critics and journalists were targeted with mobilization orders

Date: 2023

Security forces began notifying journalists, civil-society activists and opposition members that they were being conscripted for government security operations under the general-mobilization framework.

## Drivers

- Traoré junta and AES: https://factrail.ai/drivers/traore-junta-aes

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/08/burkina-faso-emergency-law-targets-dissidents
- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/burkina-faso

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/critics-conscripted-burkina-2023