Democratic Republic of Congo: Health concern/ Detention without trial / Torture

Index Number: AFR 62/018/2007
Date Published: 2 November 2007
Categories: Africa, Democratic Republic Of Congo

Major Yawa Gomonza and Colonel Paul Ndokayi, both high-ranking members of the national Congolese army, are in need of urgent medical treatment for injuries they received when they were tortured by the "Special Services" police. They are being detained without trial at the Kinshasa Penitentiary and Re-education Centre, the main prison in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.