Somalia: Security Forces Open Torture Chambers in Mogadishu

 

The security forces nowadays have torture chambers in Mogadishu. These days, the number of such houses where security forces take their victims are on the rise. Abdirizak Gurey is a Somali young man who returned from the Diaspora. Recently, he was captured in Mogadishu by the security forces and then they took him to one of those places. And in the process of interrogating him they also tortured him very badly. "They stopped my car. Then I told them that I am a businessman. One of them said they suspected me. Then they took me to a house where they tortured me". Gurey said.

A lady who resides in the next house came out and asked them who the victim was that night and then they replied "we are torturing one stubborn man from the Diaspora. Abdirizak is currently under going medication in one of the hospitals in the city.

UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is 26 June, in this month each year we are calling somali activists and human rights defenders to high light torture practice in Somalia by Federal Goverment of Somalia law enforcement agencies