EQUATO-GUINEAN AUTHORITIES DENY CLAIMS 6 ARMENIAN PILOTS IN GUINEAN PRISON IN PLIGHT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The government of Equatorial Guinea has denied the claims that 6 Armenian pilots kept in prison in that country are in a plight. The other day Kolawole Olaniyan, director of Amnesty International's Africa Program stated that the prisoners are emaciated with persistent torture and chronic diseases. Besides, the prisoners of the Black Beach prison risk starving to death, as the prison direction has cut their food rations. In response to that Special Advisor to Equato-Guinean President Miguel Mifumu stated that the prisoners get enough food and Amnesty International «merely puts pressure upon the country authorities for the prisoners to be released.» «Let them come and see what actually takes place, as the Red Cross has done,» he added. It should be noted that the Armenian pilots were indicted in complicity in an attempt of a coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea and were sentenced to long-term imprisonment.