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Two South African engineers have returned home after more than two years, when the UN has called “arbitrary and illegal”.
Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in the middle of 50 years, was arrested in February 2023 after drugs found in their luggage.
They were sentenced to a 12-year prison and was given $ 5 million (£ 4 million), but presidential apologies after their families and the South African government.
Their detention came after the Vice President of the Teodoro Nguema Obiang Equatorial Guinea.
A sailboat of Obiang and the two towns of the city, the son of Guinea Equatorial Guinea President did not take place Court resolution.
“We are overwhelmed with relief and joy. The last two years and four months cannot be imaginable for our families,” according to a statement released by both men’s families.
They were working at the Equator Guinea of the Dutch oil and gas company, when they arrested the night before the previous year after the last five-week rentation returned home.
Families demanded the support of the South African government, as well as the support of the Government of the United Kingdom, as Mr. Huxham has a double nationality.
“South Africa expressed honest thanks to the gines of Guinea, considering the presidency’s forgiveness and eventually Mr. Huxham and Potgieter giving his loved ones to return home,” he said X Foreign Minister of South Africa A message from Ronald Lamelala.
Last year, the United Nations Committee on Arbitrary Arrest asked the coupler release, saying that their arrest was illegal.
Their families said the couple arrested to seize the assets of the Vice-President of the Equatorial Guinea.
BBC has contacted Equatorial Guinea for comment.
A South African official said that the BBC court decided on the fate of the yachts and villas and the government could not intervene.
