Congo - June 2024

In a report launched on 26 June, the Congolese NGO, the Centre for Actions for Development (Centre d'actions pour le développement, CAD), detailed a sharp rise in torture and other serious human rights violations in the Republic of the Congo. Monitoring localities in five of the country’s 12 departments, CAD documented 122 cases of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the first six months of 2024, up from 13 cases over the same period in 2023. A similar comparison of cases of arbitrary arrests and detention showed an even sharper increase (31 to 251). Cases of summary executions rose from three to five, and cases of torture resulting in death increased from two to five. The number of demonstrations and meetings repressed grew fivefold from two to ten. According to the report, the documented abuses were mainly perpetrated by state actors.  

Sources: Centre d'actions pour le développement, Radio France Internationale