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Guinea: New Leader Should Address Rights Abuses

14 Aug

Posted by Otto as Human Rights

Urgent Need to End Impunity
Guinea’s new leader should put the country’s chronic human rights problems at the top of his agenda, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré made public today.
Human Rights Watch identified impunity for unlawful killings, torture, prison conditions, child labor, and child trafficking as among the [...]

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Release Equatorial Guinea pastor

23 May

Posted by Otto as Human Rights

Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momesori, a Protestant pastor and member of an ethnic group native to Bioko Island, has been detained since October 2003 without charge or trial. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience, arrested solely for his peaceful political opinions and because of his ethnic origin.
Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momesori, in his mid-50s, married [...]

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