Rights group protests Spain v Guinea match
A Spanish human rights group called on Spain's football federation to cancel plans to play a friendly match against oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, accusing the African nation of torture and arbitrary detentions.The Spanish Association for Human Rights (APDHE) expressed its "outright rejection" of the match to be played on Saturday in the Equatorial Guinea capital of Malabo, in a letter to Spain's football federation president, Angel Maria Villa Llona.
"We ask you to immediately suspend this football match," the APDHE said.
Spain's football federation would share a table and tribune with authorities who had committed "aberrant" crimes, the group said, warning that as World and European champions Spain's decision provided a propaganda coup for the Equatorial Guinea government.
Equatorial Guinea generates around 95 percent of its income from oil yet many of its 700,000 inhabitants live in poverty.
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