President Joseph Kabila

Présidence de la République

Kinshasa Gombe

République Démocratique du Congo

Email: pr@presidentrdc.cd or pp@presidentrdc.cd

Your Excellency,

Colonel Paul Ndokayi, head of a programme to demobilize former militias in Congo, was arrested in Kinshasa on 27 November 2006. During his detention he has been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment. He is currently held at the main prison in Kinshasa, the Centre de Detention et Rééducation de Kinshasa (CPRK), where he is denied medical treatment for the injuries he sustained during torture.

The day after his arrest, Paul Ndokayi was transferred to Kin-Mazière, the headquarters of the Special Services police, where he was beaten and tortured for five hours. He was tied, chained at the ankles and made to lie on the floor. He was beaten with belts, truncheons and sticks, kicked in the head and stabbed in the foot with a knife. He lost consciousness, only to be revived by his torturers, who then broke his hand in several places with a piece of wood.

I call for Colonel Paul Ndokayi to receive immediate medical care and for those responsible for torturing him to be brought to justice.

Furthermore, I call for him to be either released immediately or tried promptly.

Sincerely,

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