London — Amnesty International's Secretary General Pierre Sane, currently visiting Morocco, today appealed to the President of Equatorial Guinea not to resort to executing 15 people who were sentenced to death on 1 June on the basis of confessions extracted under torture in an unfair summary military trial.
"Other detainees were asked to dig the graves for those present in court on the same day of the sentence and a firing squad had already prepared to shoot them on the beach, near the prison where they are detained," Amnesty International delegates reported on their return from Equatorial Guinea. "Although the President suspended the executions at the very last minute, no one knows how long this suspension will last."
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