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- Subject: *NEW* TRAVEL INFORMATION -- Eq. Guinea
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 09:01:44 -0600
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- STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL INFORMATION - Equatorial Guinea
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- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
- Office of the Assistant Secretary / Spokesman
-
- For Immediate Release
- December 24, 1992
-
- STATEMENT BY RICHARD BOUCHER, SPOKESMAN
-
- EQUATORIAL GUINEA
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- The United States is deeply concerned by the continuing
- repression of political opposition in Equatorial Guinea. Over the
- last week, scores of students, teachers, priests and opposition
- activists have been rounded up on the pretext that they were
- involved in a minor student disturbance at the Malabo market. Many
- of the detainees have been badly beaten, often in the presence of
- high-ranking officials of the Obiang regime. The regime refused
- permission for the medical evacuation of some of the more badly
- injured detainees.
-
- The Government of Equatorial Guinea has repeatedly pledged
- itself to a process of democratization; it has just as frequently
- violated those pledges. The arrest and torture of innocent members
- of a non-violent opposition once again demonstrates the government's
- lack of good faith.
-
- The U.S. ambassador has attempted to protest these latest
- acts of political repression to the Government of Equatorial Guinea,
- but government officials have refused to receive him in the absence
- of President Obiang from the country.
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- We call upon the Government of Equatorial Guinea to release
- immediately all political prisoners, to cease the torture in the
- prisons, to punish those responsible for these abuses, and to
- compensate those persons unjustly detained.
-
- Further, the United States calls for the Government of
- Equatorial Guinea to cease its thinly disguised threats of violence
- against U.S. citizens, including our ambassador. The United States
- reminds the Government of Equatorial Guinea that we hold it directly
- responsible for the safety of all resident U.S. citizens, including
- missionaries, businessmen, technicians, and Peace Corps volunteers,
- as well as diplomats.
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