T&T deflects questions on rights record of Caricom invitee

Jul 05, 2013

(Trinidad Express) Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran said the Trinidad and Tobago Government was not in a position to adjudicate on international human rights reports on President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Mbasogo, who in his capacity as head of the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) region, was one of three presidents invited to attend this week’s Caricom meeting in Port of Spain.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2012 reported that the government of Mbasogo, who is Africa’s longest serving ruler, “regularly engages in torture and arbitrary detention” of opponents.

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