Gabon: RFUK calls for release of activists

The Rainforest Foundation UK demands the immediate release of the detained civil rights activists and journalists, arrested without charge by the Gabonese judicial police. On December 31, the Gabonese judicial police arrested the environmental and civil rights activist Marc Ona Essangui, president of Rainforest Foundation UK's partner organisation, Brainforest, and coordinator of the Publish What You Pay Coalition in Gabon.