Democratic Republic of Congo: Incommunicado detention/ Fear of torture and other ill-treatment

Democratic Republic of Congo: Incommunicado detention/ Fear of torture and other ill-treatment

Human rights defenders Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Dolly Inefo Mbunga and Donat Tshikaya were arrested on 15 March in Kinshasa, the DRC’s capital, by officers of the Police Nationale Congolaise , national police force. According to eyewitnesses, the men were beaten, handcuffed and “thrown” into police vehicles and then taken to the Kin-Mazière detention centre in central Kinshasa, the headquarters of the Special Services police.