Julio Obama Mefuman, a member of the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea, has died within the Oveng Azem jail (Mongomo) Obama’s occasion asks the Spanish authorities to interrupt relations with Equatorial Guinea The opposition to Obiang denounces arbitrary arrests of activists who find yourself in “underground cells and brutally tortured”
The Equatorial Guinean opponent Julio Obama Mefuman, who has Spanish citizenship, has died within the Oveng Azem jail (Mongomo), in Equatorial Guinea, based on Spanish diplomatic sources confirmed to Europa Press.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation has reported that it’s taking the pertinent steps after Obama’s demise by the Spanish Embassy in Malabo and the Consulate in Bata.
Obama’s occasion, the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea, has confused that he has died because of the torture to which he has been subjected and has urged the Spanish authorities to interrupt relations with the Equatorial Guinean authorities.
As defined by the occasion, Obama was one of many 4 kidnapped by the “regime” of the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang, on November 15, 2019 in Juba (South Sudan), being transferred “surreptitiously” to Equatorial Guinea and locked in “underground cells and brutally tortured”.
In the foregoing, the motion recounts that the preliminary proceedings have been initiated within the Spanish National Court, and the son, Carmelo Ovono Obiang, and two Obiang leaders have been accused of the alleged kidnapping and torture of two Spanish residents built-in into the opposition motion to the political regime of the african nation.
In addition, the opposition occasion has warned within the assertion that the return to Equatorial Guinea of the president’s son in “complete impunity” would result in “retaliation” towards the militants, Spanish residents, “having warned all of the authorities, judicial and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, with out there having been any pronouncement towards the Obiang regime that might anticipate a revenge that may clearly happen,” he stresses.
For all the above, the political occasion has “strongly” requested the Spanish Government to proceed “instantly” to interrupt diplomatic relations with Equatorial Guinea and, equally, to the judicial authorities, to proceed “with all of the rigor of the felony regulation towards the perpetrators”.