The human rights situation in Equatorial Guinea will be the subject of debate and a European Parliament resolution next week in a gesture condemning violence against the opposition following the death in prison of Spaniard Julio Obama Mefuman.
The liberal group, which includes Ciudadanos, has proposed this debate, which was also on the agenda of the Social Democrats, the European family of the PSOE. «The political opposition to the regime and various international NGOs have denounced the systematic violation of human rights by the government of Equatorial Guinea,» said the ‘orange’ MEP Jordi Cañas.
In this sense, he recalled the accusations that weigh against including extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrests, political prisoners or detainees, restrictions on freedom of expression, press, assembly, association and political participation», he denounced.
Obama Mefuman died last January 15 in the prison of Oveng Azem (Mongomo), where he was held together with Feliciano Efa Mangue, also a Spaniard, as denounced by his party, the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea Third Republic (MLGE3R).
His death took place less than two weeks after it became known that the National Court is investigating three high officials of Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s government, one of them his son, in connection with the alleged kidnapping and torture of two Spaniards.
Malabo for its part attributed the death to «due to an illness» and stressed that his sentence was handed down after «a fair trial» following a «thwarted coup attempt on December 27, 2017».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
