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Rutshuru: 17 detainees transferred to Goma in critical condition
Posted on Sat, 12/05/2018 - 11:07 | Changed on Sat, 12/05/2018 - 11:07
Seventeen detainees from Rutshuru Prison, transferred on Thursday May 10 to the Goma District Prosecutor's Office (North Kivu), all show signs of severe malnutrition and symptoms of acute respiratory infections. Many of them have been in prison for months without judgment, while others are desperately waiting to be fixed on their fate.
Sources close to the Rutshuru prosecutor's office state that the transfer of these detainees is linked to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts. Indeed, these sources claim that most of these detainees are prosecuted for serious crimes, including murders, murders, rapes, kidnappings.
These facts, they say, fall directly within the jurisdiction of a higher court than the Rutshuru Peace Court.
Only local charities that assist these detainees in this territory, in terms of food, deplore the difficult conditions in which they live. They report lack of food and medicine.
This situation explains the "cascading deaths" of detainees, registered since the beginning of this year.
Moreover, sources close to the prison services in Rutshuru claim that two other detainees died in the night from Wednesday to Thursday because of hunger. Therefore, these organizations say they are overwhelmed and call for charity from other NGOs and people of goodwill.
All the efforts of Radio Okapi to have the reaction of the provincial Minister of Justice have been in vain.
https://www.radiookapi.net/2018/05/...17-detenus-transferes-goma-dans-etat-critique