Saturday, November 05, 2005
The Forgotten of Africa, Wasting Away in Jails Without Trial - N.Y. Times
In Malawi's high-security prisons, conditions are unbearable, confinements intolerably long, and justice scandalously uneven. He eats one meal of porridge daily. He spends 14 hours each day in a cell with 160 other men, packed on the concrete floor like sliced bacon, unable even to move. The water is dirty; the toilets foul. Disease is rife.
But the worst part may be that in the case of Mr. Sikayenera, who is accused of killing his
brother, the charges against him have not yet even reached a court. Almost certainly, they
never will. For sometime after November 1999, justice officials lost his case file. His guards know where he is. But for all Malawi's courts know, he does not exist. ...
In Malawi's high-security prisons, conditions are unbearable, confinements intolerably long, and justice scandalously uneven. He eats one meal of porridge daily. He spends 14 hours each day in a cell with 160 other men, packed on the concrete floor like sliced bacon, unable even to move. The water is dirty; the toilets foul. Disease is rife.
But the worst part may be that in the case of Mr. Sikayenera, who is accused of killing his
brother, the charges against him have not yet even reached a court. Almost certainly, they
never will. For sometime after November 1999, justice officials lost his case file. His guards know where he is. But for all Malawi's courts know, he does not exist. ...
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