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against the dictatorship

Over the last five decades, there have been reports of human rights violations perpetrated in Equatorial Guinea against dissidents and human rights activists. Often these reports have not been extended to the human rights violations that affect citizens in general. To date, these reports have only resulted in ineffective recommendations to ensure that the public authorities respect the law. 

Proceedings have been brought against Teodoro Nguema Obiang in the United States and France for the embezzlement and laundering of public funds, but these have not been extended to all the other people involved in this corrupt scheme as co-perpetrators, accomplices, intermediaries or facilitators.   

Although national civil society stood up for citizens’ rights against the dictatorship, it was excluded from previous trials as an aggrieved party. As a result, the judgments rendered were largely symbolic or unenforceable—such as the fraudulent reassignment of the Foch 42 building for diplomatic purposes— and, more troubling, Teodoro Nguema Obiang was exempted from criminal liability, despite his clear connections to individuals implicated in the scandal and his resulting civil liability.  

At the end of these processes, several international NGOs promoted the adoption of regulations governing the restitution of confiscated assets (Sueur Law in France) in application of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Once again, national civil society was not involved in this regulatory process either, nor is there any provision for its integration into the bodies responsible for following up and monitoring the process of restitution of confiscated assets. 

Therefore, since its creation, NEXOS GE has launched an international campaign to guarantee the defence of all victims of human rights violations, and to demand the full restitution of all assets confiscated abroad, as well as their reallocation for the general good. After all, the widespread scheme of embezzlement and laundering of public funds has led to the denial of citizens’ fundamental economic and social rights.