More former male inmates at
a jail in Swaziland say they were sexually assaulted by warders.
They say they were stripped
and had their genitals groped. One said a warder pulled the pubic hair on his
testicles.
The Sunday Observer
newspaper in Swaziland reported (27 August 2017) that three former inmates at Bhalekane
said the jail ‘created monsters out of them’.
It said, ‘One of them who
had been with the facility for two years before he was released recently indicated
that the torture he endured at Bhalekane has made him a hostile animal.’
One former inmate whom it
did not name said, ‘They [warders] were doing their usual strip search, where
they went on to touch me and some other inmates on our private parts, very
intimately, which destroyed our manhood.’
Another former inmate said,
‘One day they returned straight from their gym and did a strip search, they
would smash our hands on the floor with the soccer boots, squeeze our
genitals.’
The Sunday Observer reported,
‘He further added that one of the officers even went as far as pulling the
pubic hair in his testicles.’
Warders were searching
inmates for illegal drugs, the newspaper said.
One of the former inmates
told the newspaper, ‘Our sentence might have ended but we are definitely not
the same people that went in there, we are worse and I would not be shocked if
one of the inmates committed murder or any related offence because we are the
animals that they are trying to build at Bhalekane.’
Another former inmate told
the newspaper he had been kicked in the head by one of the officers. ‘He kept
on banging my defenceless head on the ground with his soccer boot. I begged for
mercy and he told me that I do not deserve mercy since I was there (jail) to
pay for the crimes I committed,’ he said.
He further alleged that he
was made to work in the fields with a gun pointing on his head.
Bhalekane was in the news in late July 2017 when a former inmate told local media an entire
dormitory of prisoners was ordered to strip naked before warders searched them
and smacked them on their buttocks.
See also
PRISONERS STRIPPED NAKED, ASSAULTED
‘JAIL WARDERS SELL PRISONERS DRUGS’
‘WOMEN’S
JAIL BOOZE COVER-UP’
PROBE
INTO ‘INHUMANE’ JAIL CONDITIONS
PROBE INTO CORRUPTION AT SWAZI JAIL
https://swazimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/probe-into-corruption-at-swazi-jail.html
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