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Spanish court to order arrest of Equatorial Guinea leader’s son

Spanish court to order arrest of Equatorial Guinea leader’s son

SPAIN'S High Court has accepted an appeal by members of Equatorial Guinea's opposition and ordered a lower court to issue arrest warrants for the son of the country's president and two other officials over allegations of torture and kidnapping. Carmelo Ovono Obiang, son of President Teodoro Obiang, and two other senior officials were accused of abducting four members of the Spain-based opposition group, the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea Third Republic (MLGE3R), while they were on a trip to South Sudan in 2019. Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema In a complaint lodged with Spain's High Court in…
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Spanish court closes torture probe into Equatorial Guinean president’s son

Spanish court closes torture probe into Equatorial Guinean president’s son

SPAIN'S High Court has ended its investigation into Equatorial Guinean minister Carmelo Ovono Obiang over the alleged kidnapping and torture of two opposition leaders with Spanish citizenship, it said. Obiang, son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and two other senior Guinean officials were accused of kidnapping four members of the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea Third Republic (MLGE3R), a Spain-based opposition group, while they were on a trip to South Sudan in 2019. In a complaint filed with Spain's High Court in 2020, the MLGE3R alleged that the four - two of whom were Spanish citizens - were…
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Autopsy indicates Angola ex-leader died of natural causes, Spanish court orders more testing

Autopsy indicates Angola ex-leader died of natural causes, Spanish court orders more testing

PRELIMINARY autopsy results show the death of Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos was due to natural causes, a Spanish court said on Monday while ordering further examination. Dos Santos died two weeks ago in Barcelona at the age of 79. The court also decided to delay the handover of his body to his family, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. "Despite the fact that the provisional autopsy report indicates that Mr. dos Santos' death was natural, the court has decided to order complementary testing to that usually done in an autopsy, given that a complaint about possible threats…
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Spanish court allows autopsy of former Angolan leader dos Santos

Spanish court allows autopsy of former Angolan leader dos Santos

A Spanish court has ruled that an autopsy be performed on the body of Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos who died in a clinic in Barcelona on Friday at the age of 79, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. She said the court had granted the request of a family member for the autopsy, which was yet to take place, but provided no further details. The Carmen Varela family law firm representing dos Santos' daughter Tchizé dos Santos, said earlier she had asked for her father's body to be kept in Spain for a full autopsy due to…
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No custody for Western Sahara leader

No custody for Western Sahara leader

INTI LANDAURO and GUILLERMO MARTINEZ SPAIN’S High Court has turned down a request for Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali to be taken into custody, saying the plaintiffs in a war crimes case against him had failed to provide evidence he had committed any crime. Ghali's presence in Spain has infuriated Morocco, which says Western Sahara is part of its own territory and last month appeared to relax border controls with a Spanish enclave, resulting in a sudden influx of migrants. The Polisario Front leader, who has been hospitalized in the Spanish city of Logrono for more than a month,…
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