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Sale of a Seized Beach House Funds Covid-19 Vaccine Drive in Equatorial Guinea

Corruption Settlement Returns Looted Funds to the Public They Were Stolen From

A decade-long scandal involving Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, the eldest son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, may actually have a happy ending for the people of the country whose resources have been looted. The United States Department of Justice…
Proceeds from the Malibu home seized from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president of Equatorial Guinea, are now funding the country's Covid-19 vaccine drive.
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France: Equatorial Guinea Vice President’s Conviction Upheld

Paves Way for Equatoguineans to Regain Stolen Resources

(Paris) – France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, on July 28, 2021 upheld two lower courts’ convictions of Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, the vice president of Equatorial Guinea and eldest son of the president, for embezzling and laundering…
Teodorin Nguema, Equatorial Guinea's vice president and son of President Teodoro Obiang.
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Equatorial Guinea: Seek Independent Inquiry of Blast

International Support Should Go Directly to Affected People, Not Government

(Johannesburg) – Equatorial Guinean authorities should invite international experts to conduct an independent investigation into the explosion that took place on March 7, 2021 at a military camp in Bata, the country’s largest city, Human Rights Watch…
A dark cloud of smoke shown in the aftermath of a series of explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, March 7, 2021.
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France: Law for Responsible Asset Return Urgently Needed

ICJ Rejects Challenge to Confiscating “Ill-Gotten” Mansion

(Paris) – An International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on December 11, 2020, paves the way for the people of Equatorial Guinea to regain misappropriated resources, Transparency International France, Human Rights Watch, and EG Justice said today. The…
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The Victims of Corruption Deserve Justice

After a Parisian court convicted the vice president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Nguema Obiang, of laundering more than €150 million in France two years ago and authorities seized those assets, the French government faced a decision:…
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IMF: Delay Vote on Equatorial Guinea Loan

Risk of Subsidizing Systemic Abuses, Corruption

(Washington, DC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board should delay a planned December 2019 vote on a US$280 million loan agreement with Equatorial Guinea, eight human rights and good governance organizations and…
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Equatorial Guinea: Coup Trial Travesty of Justice

112 Convicted in Flawed Case; Defendants Alleged Torture

(Washington, DC) – An Equatorial Guinea court’s conviction of 112 defendants on May 31, 2019, in a trial rife with due process violations, including confessions extracted through torture, represents a gross miscarriage of justice, Human…
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Equatorial Guinea: A Move to Rejoin Anti-Corruption Group

Repression at Odds with Extractive Industry Watchdog’s Requirements

(Paris) – Equatorial Guinea is seeking to rejoin a group that works to curb corruption in resource-rich countries, Human Rights Watch, EG Justice, and Publish What You Pay said today. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (…
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What if Equatorial Guinea Kept Its Promises on Human Rights?

Poverty, Corruption, Other Ills Should be Addressed

The United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process is meant to give countries a chance to scrutinize the human rights records of fellow UN member states. But countries with awful human rights records often respond to the…
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Equatorial Guinea: UN Review Should Highlight Abuses

Critics Intimidated, Arbitrarily Detained, Beaten

  (Geneva) – Governments should use an upcoming United Nations review of Equatorial Guinea’s rights record to question the country’s brutal repression of human rights defenders, the…
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France Can Offer Justice to Corruption Victims

Senate Should Pass Law Requiring Repatriation of Stolen Assets

A Paris criminal court recently convicted Equatorial Guinea’s vice president in absentia of laundering more than US$120 million of his country’s assets in France, and seized his ill-gotten gains. The case, initiated by two French…
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Equatorial Guinea: Rights Lawyer Faces Bogus Charges

Grave Concern Detainees Have Been Tortured, Killed

Update: Onofre O. Otogo Ayecaba and Hector-Santiago Ela Mbang appeared at a trial in Bata on March 22, 2019, despite earlier concerns that both men had been killed in custody. (Paris)—Equatorial Guinea named a French anti-…
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Swiss Prosecutors Squander Opportunity to Counter Kleptocracy

Equatorial Guinea Vice President Gets to Keep $100-Million Yacht in Settlement

The son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Nguema Obiang, who is also vice president, kept a US$100-million superyacht in the Netherlands and 25 exotic cars in Switzerland. The yacht is worth more than…
In December 2016, authorities seized a yacht reportedly worth $100 million from Teodorin Obiang, the president’s eldest son and vice president, as part of an ongoing Swiss investigation into money-laundering.
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Equatorial Guinea: Prominent Activist Severely Beaten

UN Experts Should Take Up the Case

A prominent anti-corruption and human rights activist in Equatorial Guinea says that armed plainclothes security officers severely beat and stabbed him on October 27, 2018, Human Rights Watch, EG Justice, Amnesty…
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Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School

African Governments Should Ensure Right to Education

  (Nairobi) - Tens of thousands of pregnant girls and adolescent mothers are banned or discouraged from attending school across Africa, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today, ahead of the Day of the African Child…
Students enrolled in the final year of lower secondary school in the classroom in a village in Kolda region, southern Senegal. Adolescent mothers and married girls study in this school.
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Equatorial Guinea: Artist, Finally Free, Leaves Country

Jailed for 6 Months, Barred from Leaving for 3 More

(Nairobi, May 29, 2018) – The Equatorial Guinean artist Ramón Esono Ebalé left the country on May 28, 2018, after being imprisoned for six months on apparently false charges and then waiting three months for travel documents, 13 rights organizations said…
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Equatorial Guinea: Government Critic Blocked from Leaving Country

Unreasonable Delay in Renewing Cartoonist’s Passport

(Nairobi, May 1, 2018) – An internationally acclaimed cartoonist acquitted of trumped-up charges and released from prison on March 7, 2018, cannot leave Equatorial Guinea because authorities have stalled on renewing his passport, nine human rights groups…
Equatorial Guinea frequently harasses government critics. These cartoons are part of a campaign to free Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé, a cartoonist who has been in prison since September 2017.

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