Human rights in Equatorial Guinea

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Equatorial Guinea is known for human rights abuses. Under the current government it has included "limited ability of citizens to change their government; increased reports of unlawful killings by security forces; government-sanctioned kidnappings; systematic torture of prisoners and detainees by security forces; life threatening conditions in prisons and detention facilities; impunity; arbitrary arrest, detention, and incommunicado detention; harassment and deportation of foreign residents with limited due process; judicial corruption and lack of due process; restrictions on the right to privacy; restrictions on freedom of speech and of the press; restrictions on the rights of assembly, association, and movement; government corruption; violence and discrimination against women; suspected trafficking in persons; discrimination against ethnic minorities; and restrictions on labor rights."[1] There have been multiple election irregularities in the 2009 legislative elections, but it was considered an improvement over the flawed 2002 and 2004 elections.[1] There is a cult of personality in Equatorial Guinea around the leader. In order to improve his image, long time autocrat, Teodoro Obiang, hired Racepoint for 60 000$ a year to improve Equatorial Guinea's image.[2] Transparency International includes Equatorial Guinea as one of its most 12 corrupt states.[3][4] In June 2007, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Equatorial Guinea and reported that political prisoners are sometimes tried by military rather than civilian courts.[5] Nongovernmental sources cited around 100 prisoners jailed for political reasons.[6] The leader of Equatorial Guinea previously worked at the notorious Black Beach Prison

Suppression of Parliamentary Opposition

According to parliamentary testimony, in October 1602, Salvador Ndong Nguema, a member of the opposition party Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), died from torture in custody of security forces. Two members of the security forces were taken in, but released and assigned to other security duties.[1] On March 12–13, 2009, Saturnino Ncogo Mbomio, a member of banned political party died in police detention at Evinayong, ostensibly in possession of weapons for a coup. He died from a fractured skull, which the police allege was during a suicide attempt falling from his bunk bed.[1]

Historical situation

The chart shows Equatorial Guinea's ratings since 1972 in the Freedom in the World reports, published annually by Freedom House. A rating of 1 is "most free" and 7 is "least free".[7]1

International treaties

Equatorial Guinea's stances on international human rights treaties are as follows:

See also

Notes

1.^ Note that the "Year" signifies the "Year covered". Therefore the information for the year marked 2008 is from the report published in 2009, and so on.
2.^ As of January 1.
3.^ The 1982 report covers the year 1981 and the first half of 1982, and the following 1984 report covers the second half of 1982 and the whole of 1983. In the interest of simplicity, these two aberrant "year and a half" reports have been split into three year-long reports through interpolation.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/118999.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-us-agency-cleaned-up-rwandas-genocide-stained-image/article2322005/page2/
  3. ↑ http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2009/cpi_2009_table
  4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13317174
  5. ↑ http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=7378&LangID=E
  6. ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,UNHRC,,GNQ,,47fddcc92,0.html
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