Equatorial Guinea should release a human rights activist who was detained for denouncing the arrest of an opposition leader, said a human rights group.<\/p>\n
Luis Nzo was beaten and then arrested on Thursday in the tiny, oil-rich Central African nation for distributing leaflets and using a megaphone to deplore the arrest of Guillermo Nguema, Amnesty International said late Friday.<\/p>\n
Nguema, leader of the Republican Democratic Force opposition party, was arrested earlier in the week and taken to a village in the country’s far east. He had been told he cannot leave the village without authorization, according to Amnesty.<\/p>\n
“Luis Nzo must be immediately and unconditionally released, and all restrictions of movement lifted from Guillermo Nguema,” said Marta Colomer Aguilera, a campaigner for Amnesty. “There is no legitimate reason to justify this \u2014 it is simply a crackdown on dissent.”<\/p>\n
Amnesty and EG Justice, a U.S.-based rights group focused on Equatorial Guinea, say they have evidence Nzo was beaten when he refused to stop handing out leaflets and then taken to a police station. He is being held without charge.<\/p>\n
Equatorial Guinea is home to Africa’s longest serving strongman, President Teodoro Obiang, who came to power through a military coup in 1979. It has the highest per capita income in Africa but its oil money benefits only a small elite and Obiang stifles the opposition.<\/p>\n
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