BRUSSELS, 9 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Human Rights situation in Equatorial Guinea will be the subject of debate and a European Parliament resolution next week in a gesture that will condemn the violence against the opposition after the death in prison of the Spanish Julio Obama Mefuman.
The liberal group, which includes Ciudadanos, has proposed this debate that 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, it has recalled the accusations against them, including extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrests, political prisoners or detainees, restrictions on freedom of expression, of the press, of assembly, of association and of political participation”, has denounced.
Obama Mefuman died on January 15 in the Oveng Azem prison (Mongomo), where he was being held together with fellow Spaniard Feliciano Efa Mangue, according to his party, the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea Third Republic (MLGE3R) denounced. .
His death took place less than two weeks after it became known that the National Court is investigating three high-ranking government officials of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, one of them his son, in relation to the alleged kidnapping and torture of two Spaniards.
Malabo, for its part, attributed the death to “due to illness” and stressed that his sentence was handed down after “a fair trial” after a “frustrated coup attempt on December 27, 2017.”
