Today a French court handed Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue... a suspended three-year prison sentence, a €30 million (US$35 million) fine and confiscated all of his French-held assets. 

Obiang was found guilty of embezzlement: abusing his position as agriculture and forestry minister to siphon public money for his own use.

Before the verdict was announced we interviewed Delfin Mocache Massoko, a key witness in the case, to find out what the trial means to him. Massoko is founder of Diario Rombe, a digital newspaper that publishes news and ideas that do not appear in the state-controlled media of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. He left the country in 2013...