AI report on Nigeria: Prisoners’ rights systematically flouted
Amnistía Internacional publicou hoxe un informe de cincuenta páxinas sobre a violación dos Direitos Humanos dos presos en Nixeria.
O informe leva por título “Nigeria: Prisoners’ rights systematically flouted”. Copio e pego un extracto da introducción:
[...] Approximately 65 per cent of the inmates are awaiting trial most of whom have been waiting for their trial for years. [...]
Living conditions in the prisons are appalling. They are damaging to the physical and mental well-being of inmates and in many cases constitute clear threats to health. Conditions such as overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of food and medicines and denial of contact with families and friends fall short of UN standards for the treatment of prisoners. The worst conditions constitute ill-treatment. In many Nigerian prisons inmates sleep two to a bed or on the floor in filthy cells. Toilets are blocked and overflowing or simply nonexistent, and there is no running water. As a result, disease is widespread.
Most prisons have small clinics or sick bays which lack medicines, and in many prisons inmates have to pay for their own medicines. Guards frequently demand that inmates pay bribes for such “privileges” as visiting the hospital, receiving visitors, contacting their families and, in some cases, being allowed outside their cells at all. Prisoners with money may be even allowed mobile phones, whereas those without funds can be left languishing in their cells. [...]
