| Location | Bioko, Equatorial Guinea |
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| Security class | Maximum |
| Population | 80 (as of 2007) |
Black Beach (Spanish: Playa Negra), located on the island of Bioko, in the capital city of Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, is of one of Africa's most notorious prisons.
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It has a reputation for systematically neglecting and brutalising inmates. Medical treatment is usually denied to inmates and food rations are said to be meagre.[1][2] (The United Nations' Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners requires minimal medical treatment for all prisoners.)
The President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, is a former Governor of Black Beach Prison.
Black Beach holds a number of foreign prisoners sentenced for participating in a 2004 failed coup d'etat attempt against the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.[1] These included Simon Mann, the alleged ringleader,[3] until his presidential pardon on 2 November 2009 on humanitarian grounds.