Equatorial Guinea: President Nguema's 'gruesome' 40 years of human rights abuses
Policeman in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea © AFP/Getty Images ‘Muzzling of dissent has had a devastating and chilling effect’ - Marta Colomer Repressive measures such as torture, extra judicial executions, arbitrary arrests used by the world’s longest serving president Video testimony with torture survivor Ramon Esono Ebalé available On the 40th anniversary of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seizing power in Equatorial Guinea, Amnesty International is calling for authorities to immediately end human rights violations and abuses. On 3 August 1979, President Nguema took power following a successful coup. Since then, he has presided over an alarming
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