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notice of the charges against him or given an opportunity to defend himself against any charges. The
International Bar Association called the disbarment “purely political” and described the Bar Association's decision as having “reportedly made in conjunction with the Government.” IBA Executive Director Mark Ellis said that the disbarment “and the manner in which this has been handled by the Bar Association in Equatorial Guinea is very worrying. This method of intimidation means that lawyers will be reluctant to take on politically sensitive cases for fear of being associated with their client. The administration of justice in Equatorial Guinea continues to be of grave concern to the IBA.”
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Liborio Mba told Nsue he could visit Esono at Black Beach. Around midday, Nsue went to the prison, but was not granted immediate access to his client. During the day he had phone contact with his wife, but he failed to return home that night, and the next day his wife contacted the investigative court and went to the prison, where she was turned away and told that her husband was not there, even though his car was still in the parking lot.
168:, he “was arrested as he was about to defend a group of political prisoners who were subsequently adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International. In July 2002, he was tried for defamation of President Obiang and sentenced to one year in prison.” He was confined for five months in Black Beach prison in Malabo, described by Human Rights Foundation as “a place with a reputation so grim that it earned Nsue's home country of Equatorial Guinea the nickname of 'the
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October 24, his wife was informed of this but was not allowed to see him. While in Black Beach prison, Nsue was told that Esono had implicated him in “an attempt to destabilise the
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Association of Equatorial Guinea, which charged them with unspecified acts of misconduct. This came in the wake of Nsue's defense of the accused coup plotters in March 2004. The Bar Association did not give Nsue prior
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October 16, 2012, allegedly because of his supposed ties to the non-governmental organisation Transparency International France, which had been investigating corruption on the part of Obiang and his son. Nsue immediately began trying to secure permission to see Esono. On
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Nsue represented a group of persons who were allegedly involved in an attempted coup in March 2004. “There was no attempted coup d'etat in this country,” one of the defendants said during the
November 2004 trial. “I had to tell these people what they wanted. It was the only way to stay alive.” An
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Nsue endured nine days of solitary confinement in a dark cell. He and three other detainees were released without charge on the evening of
October 30. He was released in the presence of the United States Ambassador, who had lobbied for his freedom. Esono Nsogo remained imprisoned.
153:, “the four men were in exile in Benin when the attack occurred.” (The four men “were later tracked down, brought back to Equatorial Guinea, tortured, and executed,” Over the course of his career, he has frequently been harassed by the government of Equatorial Guinea.
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Supreme Court.
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