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.
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