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...

The Equatorial Guinean authorities must immediately stop arbitrarily and indiscriminately arresting young men in their fight against gang crime, said Amnesty International today after documenting numerous testimonies related to these arrests. In response to an alleged increase in crime by youth...

Four West African men who have been illegally detained in Equatorial Guinea for more than five months must be immediately released, Amnesty International said today.  The men are irregular migrants — citizens from other African countries who do not have legal residence papers — and have been held...

For a second consecutive year, Amnesty International has documented how African governments are grossly undermining regional human rights bodies by failing to comply with their decisions, ignoring their urgent appeals, neglecting to report to them on national human rights situations and starving...

As confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reach one million, African leaders must take concrete measures to improve and strengthen testing and treatment capacity, and the international community should support countries to tackle the pandemic, Amnesty International said today. South...

By Oluwatosin Popoola, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International As the world battles the deadly COVID-19 virus, countries across sub-Saharan Africa have taken a number of measures aimed at stopping the spread of the virus in their territories. However, while efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic...

With inequality, injustice and hate speech seemingly ever more prevalent across the globe, you’d be forgiven for thinking 2019 has been a bad year for human rights. Yet, we have also seen some significant wins. Activists the world over have been galvanised to stand up and fight for our human rights...

The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board should delay a planned December 2019 vote on a $280 million loan agreement with Equatorial Guinea, eight human rights and good governance organizations and eight prominent experts said today in a letter to the Executive Board. The program preceding...

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea must halt decades of human rights violations and abuses including torture, arbitrary detentions and unlawful killings, Amnesty International said today, 40 years after President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seized power.  Equatorial Guineans who turn 40 this year...

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea should immediately rescind their decision to dissolve a prominent civil society organization and allow human rights defenders and activists to work without fear of reprisals, Amnesty International said today. The country’s Minister of the Interior and Local...

Reacting to the news that Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will propose a draft law to abolish the death penalty, Marie-Evelyne Petrus Barry, Amnesty International West and Central Africa Director said: “This presidential announcement is a welcome move and, if the death penalty...

His passport and phone are confiscated   He was sent back home handcuffed and put on a military plane At least three unidentified individuals seen moving around his house  Authorities in Equatorial Guinea should immediately return his passport and phone to a prominent human rights activist who was...

Human rights defenders and activists in Equatorial Guinea are facing arbitrary arrests, attacks and persecution for their work, Amnesty International said today. In a new report published today, while the country chairs until the end of the month the UN Security Council, and ahead of the Universal...