BBC Africa Eye Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bbc-africa-eye/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 BBC Africa Eye Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bbc-africa-eye/ 32 32 Toture is “rampant” in Nigeria: BBC https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/toture-is-rampant-in-nigeria-bbc/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/toture-is-rampant-in-nigeria-bbc/ An independent investigation has  found  torture is rampant among security forces interrogating detainees. It found that a senior police officer implicated in the 2014 death of a tortured suspect is still serving . BBC Africa  Eye has several video clips of detainees, including children, tortured by a method known as tabay. It involves binding the […]

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]]> An independent investigation has  found  torture is rampant among security forces interrogating detainees.

It found that a senior police officer implicated in the 2014 death of a tortured suspect is still serving .

BBC Africa  Eye has several video clips of detainees, including children, tortured by a method known as tabay.

It involves binding the arms behind the back adding weight to increase the pain.

Nigerian soldiers learned it while serving as peacekeepers in Sierra Leone 20 years ago.

Torture is illegal in Nigeria but the perpetrators of tabay appear to be able to harm suspects with impunity.

The BBC is showing footage of torture with a warning to viewers that they are about to see scenes that might be too shocking for some of them

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]]> A house of killing and torture uncovered in Burundi https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/a-house-of-killing-and-torture-uncovered-in-burundi/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/a-house-of-killing-and-torture-uncovered-in-burundi/ The BBC’s reporting that Burundi’s security services are running secret torture and detention sites to silence dissent. Burundian authorities have refused to comment on the report based on testimony of former government intelligence agents. The government in Bujumbura has repeatedly denied any human rights violations. It also discounted reports in 2016 on social media that […]

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]]> The BBC’s reporting that Burundi’s security services are running secret torture and detention sites to silence dissent.

Burundian authorities have refused to comment on the report based on testimony of former government intelligence agents.

The government in Bujumbura has repeatedly denied any human rights violations.

It also discounted reports in 2016 on social media that blood was running from a  drain in house in the Burundi capital where critics of President Pierre Nkurunziza were tortured and killed.

BBC Africa Eye has spoken to a former occupant of the house who says it was take over by state intelligence operatives after he fled the country because he opposed the president’s seeking an unconstitutional third term in power.

The report also features accounts of people detained there who saw and heard people being killed and tortured.

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