Equatorial Guinea: No free flow of information

Index Number: AFR 24/004/2000
Date Published: 5 June 2000
Categories: Africa, Equatorial Guinea

This document examines how possessing a two-years-old Amnesty International document, photocopying a Spanish newspaper article and having an opposition newspaper have led five people to be arrested in the last year in Equatorial guinea. Two are still in prison after an unfair trial in a military court.