Jagath Karunaratne, the president of the opposition Freedom Alliance Party, spent four months in Suva prison on sedition charges
When Jagath Karunaratne was first taken into custody at Fiji’s largest prison, he was held in a small, concrete cell. Normally, he says, prisoners are held here for a night while their more permanent dormitory accommodation is organised. But Karunaratne alleges he was was held there for a month.
In the cell block he says he had no bed, no bedding except a scratchy sheet, and was given a bucket to use for a toilet. He claims he was allowed to empty this once a day and every night was forced to sleep next to his own excrement.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/16/people-come-out-worse-my-time-inside-fijis-broken-prison-system
No comments:
Post a Comment