DRC: Further information on Fear of torture/"disappearance"/execution

Index Number: AFR 62/003/2001
Date Published: 18 January 2001
Categories: Africa, Democratic Republic Of Congo

Jeanine Mukanirwa, a women's rights activist from eastern DRC, was released without charge on 14 January. However, Amnesty International considers that all those from the Kivu region detained incommunicado in various security service detention centres in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi still at risk of torture and "disappearance".