May 13. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, also known as ‘Teodorín’, has warned this Saturday that his country will suspend all joint activities with Spain in the field of Defense in retaliation for the prosecution of Equatorial Guinean military commanders in the Hearing National for torture of opponents.
“If Spain continues with the process of prosecution of high commands of the Equatorial Guinean Army, Equatorial Guinea will suspend all joint military activities as a first response measure,” Nguema posted on Twitter.
Last October, the chief judge of the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, admitted for processing a complaint filed by the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea Third Republic (MLGE3R) against Carmelo Ovono, Secretary of State of Foreign Security in Equatorial Guinea, son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang; the Minister of National Security of Equatorial Guinea, Nicolás Obama Nchama, and against the General Director of Presidential Security, Issac Nguema.
The complaint focuses on the alleged kidnapping and subsequent torture suffered by four members of the MLGE3R: the residents of Spain Martín Obiang and Bienvenido Ndong and the Spanish nationals Feliciano Efa and Julio Obama Mefuman, who died in the Oveng Azem prison (Mongomo). ) allegedly the result of this torture.
The four traveled on November 15, 2019 from Madrid to Juba, in South Sudan, where they were reportedly captured and “clandestinely transferred in an official plane of the Equatorial Guinean regime and locked up in a detention center located in Oveng Asem, in the Mongomo Demarcation,” according to the complaint. “They have been tortured and forced to ask for forgiveness from the leader of the Equatoguinean regime under pressure in front of public TV in Equatorial Guinea,” the letter states.
The complaint maintains that both Ovono Obiang and Obama Nchama were present both on the official plane that carried out the kidnapping and directing “some of the torture sessions in the basements of the prison.”
The two Spanish nationals, Efa Mangue and Obama Mefuman –already deceased–, would have been accused of alleged participation in a coup d’état against the Equatorial Guinean Government for which they would have been sentenced in a military trial to 90-year sentences and 70 years in prison respectively.
