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"As they deal with the same subject, Question Nos 18 and 19 will be taken together:
Precisely one day after the Council, in the person of the Danish Foreign Affairs Minister, replied at the European Parliament’s July part-session to questions on the arbitrary arrests, trials without guarantees or justified accusations, instances of brutal torture and imprisonment in inhuman conditions which had been perpetrated by Equatorial Guinea’s dictatorial regime against the country’s democratic opposition, one of the individuals concerned – Juan Ondó Nguema – died tragically as a result of the maltreatment he had received.
In view of the fact that the country’s dictator, Teodoro Obiang, has so far ignored all calls from the international community for the trials to be cancelled, for the prisoners to be released and for the torture to cease, is the Council intending to take any urgent joint action in support of democracy in Equatorial Guinea, including applying the Cotonou Agreement human-rights protection provisions, bolstering the UN’s activities and involving the USA?
Question No 18 by Raimon Obiols i Germà ():
During Council Question Time on 3 July, the Council was tackled and alerted both by Mr Carlos Carnero González and myself about the human rights violations and serious physical torture of members of the democratic opposition practiced by Teodoro Obiang’s regime. I urged the Council Presidency to take ‘immediate action’, reminding the Minister that it is not a question simply of more or less euphemistically condemning the situation, but of ‘exercising the strength of the European Union’, using every possible political and diplomatic means to put an end to this inhuman situation.
Two days later, Juan Ondó Nguema, one of those sentenced in the Marfil Cinema trial without any legal guarantees whatever, according to all international observers, died in the Black Beach prison as a result of the ill-treatment inflicted on him while he was being interrogated by the police, and of his having been deprived of food and water in the days preceding his death.
In this situation, what pressure are the Council and Presidency bringing to bear on the authorities in Equatorial Guinea to guarantee a minimum respect for basic rights in that country?
What measures has the Council taken or does it intend to take to demand that the Government of Equatorial Guinea introduce measures to democratise the country?
Question No 19 by Carlos Carnero González ():"@en1
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"Subject: Death of a political prisoner in Equatorial Guinea and joint action to be taken by the European Union in support of democracy and human rights in that country"1
"Subject: Death of members of the opposition in Equatorial Guinea"1
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