The crackdown on human rights defenders continued and administrative obstacles prevented NGOs from obtaining legal registration. The right to a fair trial was violated. Police used excessive force and the right to freedom of expression, including access to information, was violated in the context...

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea should shed light on the fate and whereabouts of four opposition members who were reportedly abducted in South Sudan and transferred to the Central African country where they are currently detained, Amnesty International said today.

NGO coalition letter sent to the IMF following the announcement of an Extended Fund Facility. The letter expresses strong reservations regarding the proposed loan and calls the IMF Executive Board delay any vote to allow for further consultation and risk assessment. The letter provides several...

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea have missed an opportunity to take greater steps to promote and protect human rights, Amnesty International said as the country’s UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) outcome is adopted today in Geneva. The country has rejected key recommendations notably to protect...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Equatorial Guinea in May 2019. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Equatorial Guinea in its previous UPR, in particular on those recommendations in relation to situation of human...

In this open letter to President Obiang the FreeNseRamon Coalition, which includes Amnesty International, express deep concern in response to the unjust arrest and subsequent detention without charge of Ramón Esono Ebalé in Malabo on 16th September 2017, and urge for Mr. Ebalé’s immediate and...

At the 55th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Amnesty International discussed the resumption of executions by Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria, condemned the mass death sentences issued in Egypt and discussed the use of the death penalty across the continent.

In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of different states about ratification of international human rights standards, domestic legislation and human rights violations. The abuses considered include death penalty; unfair trials; torture; violence in the...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the execution of at least four and possibly nine death row prisoners in Equatorial Guinea at the end of January 2014. The country may have executed all people on death row. Two weeks later, the government announced a moratorium on the use of the death...

Agustín Esono Nsogo has been in arbitrary detention for over a year. He was arrested in Bata, the main city on the mainland part of Equatorial Guinea, on 17 October 2012. Amnesty International believes that his arrest and continued detention without charge or trial is politically motivated and...

Equatorial Guinea has failed to implement most of the recommendations it previously accepted, including those pertaining to the rights of political opponents. Amnesty International notes that incommunicado detention, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and confinement of political opponents...

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