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The complaint was submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), after plainclothes security agents violently arrested Anacleto Micha Ndong at his home in Malabo on 26 January 2024, without a warrant.
The detention of the Equatorial Guinean lawyer and activist came after he filed a complaint against high-ranking security officials, in which he exposed the kidnapping and torture he suffered during a previous unjust detention between September 2022 and June 2023. Following his detention in 2024, Anacleto Micha Ndong was placed in indefinite pretrial detention and accused of slander against a high-ranking official in retaliation for his complaint. Anacleto has not been seen or heard from since 22 March 2024. In July 2024, a judge informed his lawyers that he had been transferred to Oveng Azem, a remote maximum-security prison where he currently remains incommunicado. Known for its brutal conditions, Oveng Azem is frequently used by the regime to isolate political prisoners, cutting them off from their families, lawyers, and the outside world. Given the torture and mistreatment previously inflicted on Ndong Nlang by the regime because of his activism, the Human Rights Foundation fears that his confinement in Oveng Azem is an attempt to subject him to further abuse without external oversight.
His public allegations of government abuses have led Anacleto Micha Ndong to be repeatedly detained and harassed by the authorities. He was arrested in Malabo in January 2024 and sent to Black Beach prison, before later being transferred to Oveng Azem (Oveng Ansem) prison in Mongomo, and his current whereabouts remain unknown. On 27 February of this year, CADAL announced that Anacleto Micha Ndong was one of the political prisoners recognised with the Graciela Fernández Meijide Human Rights Award, together with Yalkun Rozi (China), Kim Jung-Wook, Choi Chun-Gil, and Kim Kook-Kie (North Korea). Regarding the recognition of Anacleto Micha Ndong, the award jury highlighted “the extremely limited visibility of the social and political tragedy suffered for decades by Equatorial Guinea, a country whose state violence has been shamefully tolerated by a broad group of countries within the democratic world.” Following the announcement of the 2026 Graciela Fernández Meijide Award for Anacleto Micha Ndong, CADAL sent letters to four democratic countries with embassies in Equatorial Guinea (Brazil, Spain, the United States, and France), requesting that they intervene on his behalf to secure his release. Now, following this WGAD ruling, CADAL will once again urge those same embassies to request a visit to Anacleto Micha Ndong at the location where he is being arbitrarily detained in Equatorial Guinea.
