Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

Scott made Someone to Watch Over Me, a romantic thriller starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers in 1987, and Black Rain ( 1989 ), a police drama starring Michael Douglas and Andy García, shot partially in Japan.

* May 11 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch.

* The Black Watch is founded in Scotland.

Her elder brother, Fergus, an officer in the Black Watch Regiment, was killed in action at the Battle of Loos in 1915.

Niven requested assignment to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Black Watch ; then jokingly wrote on the form, as his third choice, " anything but the Highland Light Infantry " ( because the HLI wore tartan trews rather than kilts ).

An early LED watch that was rather problematic was The Black Watch made and sold by British company Sinclair Research in 1975.

The Canadian Black Watch sent a company across on the evening of 31 October, but were stopped.

On 13 October, what would come to be known as " Black Friday ", the Canadian 5th Infantry Brigade's Black Watch was virtually wiped out in an unsuccessful attack.

* Culloden-The Black Watch

Loy's silent film roles were mainly those of vamps or femme fatales, and she frequently portrayed characters of Asian or Eurasian background in films such as Across the Pacific, A Girl in Every Port, The Crimson City, The Black Watch, and The Desert Song, which she later recalled "... kind of solidified my exotic non-American image.

Skelton's ( 32nd ) and Cholmondeley's ( 34th ) formed the rearguard, the Buffs were ordered to hold the churchyard, while hedges and ravines were lined with the Black Watch.

* 25 March 2003-A friendly fire (" blue-on-blue ") incident in Basra in which one Challenger 2 of the Black Watch Battlegroup ( 2nd Royal Tank Regiment ) mistakenly engaged another Challenger 2 of the Queen's Royal Lancers after detecting what was believed to be an enemy flanking manoeuvre on thermal equipment.

In 1745, owing to his knowledge of Gaelic, he gained appointment as deputy chaplain of the 43rd ( afterwards the 42nd ) regiment ( the Black Watch ), the licence to preach being granted him by special dispensation, although he had not completed the required six years of theological study.

Leaflets were distributed to Iraqi civilians, by members of the Black Watch, depicting troops and vehicles set against a backdrop of the Saltire.

The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland ( 3 SCOTS ) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Prior to 28 March 2006, the Black Watch was an infantry regiment.

The Black Watch ( Royal Highland Regiment ) from 1931 to 2006, and The Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ) from 1881 to 1931.

The government issue tartan they were required to wear was dark and may have contributed to the name they were given locally, which was Am Freiceadan Dubh ( Gaelic m. The Black Watch ), but it is also possible that the name was given by those who claimed its recruits had " black hearts " for siding with the " enemies of true Highland spirit ", or that it derived from their original duty in policing the Highlands, namely preventing ' blackmail ' ( Highlanders demanding extortion payments to spare cattle herds ).

The new regiment consisted of six companies ( later augmented to 10 ) and was numbered the 43rd Regiment of Foot ( later promoted to the 42nd ) but continued to be known by their more familiar name, the Black Watch.

In 1881, when the 42nd amalgamated with the 73rd Regiment of Foot, the new regiment was named " The Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders )".

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

The rest of Black Bottom was a rabbit warren of homes in every condition of neglect, disrepair and careful upkeep.

Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.

If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.

Black sign language was born out of this isolation.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

Ptolemy's view of Germans in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

The Griffins assigned spiritual values to Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill and originally planned to cover each of these in flowers.

Karen Black, originally cast as the ingenue, was replaced out of town.

Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.

In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

Many classic science fiction and crime novels were originally serialized in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Black Mask.

The original document from 1377, which is kept in the Archives of Dubrovnik, states that before entering the city, newcomers had to spend 30 days ( a trentine ) in a restricted location ( originally nearby islands ) waiting to see whether the symptoms of Black death would develop.

He'd been sent by Pittsburgh's GM Branch Rickey to evaluate Clemente's teammate Joe Black, a pitcher Rickey himself had originally signed for the Dodgers and was now thinking of reacquiring for Pittsburgh.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

The group was originally called The Guildford Stranglers, and operated out of The Jackpot, a Guildford off-licence run by their drummer Jet Black ( real name Brian Duffy ).

This stroboscopic human powered zoetrope was originally unveiled at the arts and culture event, Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

American Hunger, published posthumously in 1977, was originally intended as the second volume of Black Boy.

Elvis Presley was originally buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, the resting place of his backing band's bassist, Bill Black, but after an attempted grave robbing, his body was moved to the grounds of Graceland.

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask.

Category: Works originally published in Black Mask ( magazine )

The Dark Alliance series was originally set to be developed exclusively by Snowblind Studios, but ports were handled by Black Isle Studios, High Voltage Software and Magic Pockets with the second game being developed exclusively by Black Isle.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format ( this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980 ).

Sinope is surely the colony of Sinope on the Black Sea ( originally founded from Miletus ).

Herodotus thought the Cimmerians and the Thracians closely related, writing that both peoples originally inhabited the northern shore of the Black Sea, and both were displaced about 700 BC, by invaders from the east.

According to various Chinese and Korean records, the southern part of Khabarovsk Krai was originally occupied one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes and the Black Water Mohe tribes living respectively on the west and the east of the Bureinsky and the Malyi Khingan ranges.

This book was originally his doctoral thesis submitted at Lyon and entitled, " Essay on the Disalienation of the Black ".

Route 42 was originally designated in 1927 to run along the Black Horse Pike between Ferry Avenue in Camden and the present U. S. Route 40 / U. S. Route 322 split in the McKee City section of Hamilton Township, Atlantic County.

Cordova was originally a settlement on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River called " Dent " or " Dent's Place.

The town of Centralhatchee was originally a militia district known as " Black Ankle ".