Uganda: Incommunicado detention/ Torture and other ill-treatment: Nganizi Jean-Baptist (m)

Index Number: AFR 59/002/2009
Date Published: 27 April 2009
Categories: Uganda

Congolese refugee Nganizi Jean-Baptist has been held in Uganda without charge or trial since his arrest on 24 April 2008. Over the course of the year, he has been reportedly tortured and ill-treated, denied access to a lawyer and subjected to incommunicado detention. He is currently held at Mbuya Barracks Quarter Guard, in the capital Kampala, where he is at risk of further torture and other ill-treatment.