Equatorial Guinea abolishes the death penalty

Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty: state television announced it citing a law promulgated by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of this small oil country in Central Africa, one of the most closed and with the most authoritarian regime in the world .

"The death penalty is totally abolished in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea", reads the law of the new penal code signed by the head of state and posted by the vice president on Twitter.

The last execution dates back to 2014, according to Amnesty International, but the regime is accused of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture.