African coup plotters 'face slow death in jail': Amnesty International

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Amnesty says cell-bound prisoners are not getting sufficient food or medicines

Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday April 17, 2005
The Observer

Belinda du Toit is close to tears when she describes the letter she received from her mercenary husband Nick a few days ago, sent from inside Equatorial Guinea's notorious Black Beach prison, where he is held for his role in a coup plot.
'He says he is so thin that he looks like a grain of rice. He says it is only the thought of his family that is keeping him going.'

She pauses for a moment, collecting her emotions. 'When my home phone rings these days I expect someone from my government to call to tell me that my husband has died.'

It is not only Belinda du Toit who is alarmed by what is happening inside Black Beach prison in Malabo.

According to Amnesty International, conditions inside the prison have deteriorated so seriously in the past six weeks that at least 70 prisoners are at imminent risk of starvation.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1461650,00.html

MEANWHILE Mark Thatcher can't get a visa to return to the US and is contemplating a move to Monaco....

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1. I have a hard time finding any sympathy for mercenaries

Capture is something they should have thought about before they took the job.

[amber dog democrat]

2. I agree with you, They might have fared even worse.

Its not nice to plot overthrows of sovereign nations - even if they DO have oil.

[AP]

3. Has Amnesty said anything about the Mayor of Mexico City?

[DulceDecorum]

4. What, no "interrogations?"

No hanging people upside down?
No attack dogs?
Must be due to the local education system.
You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
-- HH Munro

That is the trouble with those third world nations,
they just don't know how to brutalize someone properly.
And the prisoners get as much food
as the average working stiff in that part of the world.

How many letters do the wives of the men in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib receive?