/ 22 March 2001

ISLAMIC PRISON ACCUSED OF TORTURE

THE Somalia-based Dr Ismail Jumale Human Rights Organisation (DIJHRO) has condemned the conditions and alleged human right abuses of 245 prisoners in the cells of an Islamic court in Mogadishu. Some of the prisoners have been tortured and denied due judicial process, a statement by DIJHRO co-director Maryan Awreye said. The 245 prisoners, some of whom suffer from tuberculosis, are crammed into seven cells. – AFP