Raped Inmate Sues Prison Service

Report of mass abuse and rape by staff at St. Alban’s prison in South Africa. The article includes details of abuse, response by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and reported irresponsiveness of South African officials. One prisoner described the attack as a“prison-wide orgy of mass-beatings, assault, and torture by about 50 warders in retribution for the murder of fellow-warder Babini Nqakula – a relative of then-Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula, husband of Minister of Correctional Services Nosiviwe Ma-pisa-Nqakula.”