§1. Request for information on Equatorial Guinea’s human rights practices
This section requests that the Secretary of State submit to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, not later than 30 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, a statement pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(c)) on Equatorial Guinea’s human rights practices. (As background, section 502B(c) requires such statements, prepared in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, as a condition for providing security assistance to countries with reported gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.) The statement must include (1) all available credible information on alleged violations by the government of Equatorial Guinea, such as arbitrary arrest, detention, torture, due process violations, enforced disappearances, killings, and trafficking—including of non-citizens removed there by the United States; (2) U.S. government actions to promote human rights observance, discourage violations, call attention to them, and assess pre-removal treatment of such individuals (including individualized risk assessments and assurances of legal status or humane treatment); and (3) assessments of the potential use of U.S. security assistance in related activities, prison conditions, compliance with U.S. court orders for returns, protective measures against risks like detention or torture, safeguards against unlawful removal, and any related U.S.-Equatorial Guinea agreements or transactions.