UN calls for Potgieter, Huxham’s immediate release from Equatorial Guinea prison

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for the immediate release of South African engineers Frederik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, declaring in a formal opinion that the detention of the two men in Equatorial Guinea is arbitrary and illegal. The UN decision is a material finding that definitively confirms Potgieter and Huxham’s innocence, and that their ongoing detention in Equatorial Guinea, which is a signatory to the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is a grave violation of various international human rights conventions, spokespersons for the engineers say.