Four journalists from state broadcaster RTVGE dismissed for failing to praise regime’s “merits”

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President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo attends the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, 30 January 2017, REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

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Activists Enrique Asumu & Alfredo Okenve detained in Equatorial Guinea

The police detained activists Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve on April 17, 2017, and have exceeded the 72-hour period that Equatorial Guinean law permits them to detain a person without charge.