AI press release: Nigeria prison conditions ‘appalling’

Amnistía Internacional publicou hoxe unha nota de prensa con declaracións dos investigadores que enviou recentemente a Nixeria, falando das terribles condicións dos presos nese país. AI anuncia asimesmo que publicará un informe sobre o asunto máis adiante.

A nota de prensa leva por título “Nigeria: Amnesty International delegates say prison conditions ‘appalling’”. Copio e pego un extracto:

[...] Many inmates are left for years awaiting trial in filthy overcrowded cells with children and adults often held together. Some prisoners are called ‘forgotten inmates’ as they never go to court and nobody knows how much longer their detention will last, simply because their case files are lost. [...]

Inmates in many prisons routinely sleep two to a bed or on the floor in squalid cells. Toilets, often little more than holes in the floor, are generally overflowing by the end of each day. Disease is rampant in the filth and close quarters. [...]

In Kuje Prison, located in the Federal Capital Territory, 30 boys —some as young as 11 and 12— shared a dormitory with over 175 adult men.

[...] prisoners commonly reported that access to [medical] staff or medication was available only to those who could afford bribes.