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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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President promises justice as Equatorial Guinea mourns 105 blast victims

President promises justice as Equatorial Guinea mourns 105 blast victims

EDWARD MCALLISTER and AARON ROSS Mourners cried out and held up pictures of lost loved ones as Equatorial Guinea held a mass funeral yesterday for the 105 victims of a series of explosions that levelled much of the city of Bata. Soldiers in face masks carried each coffin into Bata’s sports stadium, then laid them out in two lines on the rain-soaked running track. A series of blasts in an army barracks demolished hundreds of buildings, blew out car windows and left residents buried under piles of rubble on Sunday. Hundreds of injured people, many of them children, overwhelmed the…
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