To sign the petition, you don’t need to make a donation, or share it, but you do need to skip through all options until the platform says your signature has been added. United Nations (UN):  Frik and Peter’s detention in Equatorial Guinea is illegal, they must be freed immediately. Your signature can help bring two innocent South Africans home - they are being unlawfully held as state hostages by the Government of Equatorial Guinea. 

On 9 February 2023, two South African engineers, Frik Potgieter (54) and Peter Huxham (55), were illegally arrested and imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea on fake drug charges. They were scheduled to return home to South Africa the next morning after a five-week work rotation for their employer, a global oil and gas company.  They never came home, and are still in prison in that country, for a crime they never committed. 

Frik and Peter are innocent of these charges, and have been caught in a diplomatic battle between South Africa and Equatorial Guinea. 

Just two days before their arrest, South Africa seized a luxury super yacht belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President, Teodore Nguema Obiang Mangue (known as Teddy).  South Africa had also seized the Vice President's two luxury properties in Cape Town a few months earlier.
 
Tragically, Frik and Peter are political pawns, being held as state hostages in retaliation for South Africa’s seizure of the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea’s luxury assets. They are innocent and were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.  They need to be brought home, and in order to do that, the families need the South African and UK governments to do all they can to get them released.   

Their story needs to be heard. Please support the families by signing this petition to demand their immediate release!

Read more on their story here: www.freefrikandpeter.co.za