In this podcast we talk about torture and illegal detention in Uganda and how you might be putting cash in the pocket of an African dictator when you buy gas.
Human rights have found that the Ugandan authority illegally detain and torture rebels and terrorists. They are tortured in a torture center run by the government antiterrorism task force.
Last July a Ugandan judge has ordered ordered the task force to bring in his court five people who'd been held in the torture center called Communicado for months of detention but the task force didn't produce the five people to the court and it brought them to a commission.
A woman had called on corruption on Nigeria and Angola that are top oil producers. Equatorial Guinea is also one of the main producers to the USA it is the third major oil producer in the world. Nearly half a million people live there. After having the country back from the spain colonies Francisco Sangama took over. He was a brutal dictator that was called or rather insisted on being called the unique miracle. When his family was in exile his nephew took over and has been president sense that time.
Under his rule the equatorial Guinea has no free press, no independent judiciary, and no independent society, and arbitrary detention, torture, and rife are present.
When the Equatorial Guinea discovered oil it's economy enhanced but people say that the government of the country doesn't spend enough money on it's people. The president and his family however are well living while other people live in poverty.
Torture and Corruption in Africa
URL:http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media/audio/2009_hrwpdcst_16_UGANDA_EG.mp3
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