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Zambia
1973. On 14 September 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal, regarding
Martinho Ngola, aged 50, an Angolan national from Kuvango, Lubango province. According
to the allegations received, on 9 September 2004 around 6.30 p.m., he was placed in solitary
detention in cell number 10 at the Lusaka Central Prison and tortured by four guards over a
period of six hours. The men held him down on the floor and applied electric shocks to his
genitals. He was detained and questioned at the Lusaka Police Force Headquarters by police,
intelligence and immigration officials on 12 and 13 August 2004, and was sent to the prison
on 16 August. On 1 September 2004, two officials from the Angolan Armed Forces came to
visit Martinho Ngola in the prison, together with other officials of the Government of Angola.
Martinho Ngola and his family are reportedly at imminent risk of deportation to Angola on
the grounds that he has engaged in subversive activities in Zambia. He was denied refugee
status on 13 September 2002, and withdrew his appeal in September 2003, stating that he was
returning to Angola to stand in the forthcoming presidential elections. He had reportedly
asked the Government of Zambia for a place to conduct military training, with the intention of
training recruited Angolan refugees to join the Forcas Armadas de Seguranca Estrategica de
Defesa de Angola, with which to overthrow the Government. The Forcas Armadas de
Seguranca Estrategica de Defesa de Angola is reportedly the armed wing of the Partido da
Unidade do Povo de Angola, of which he is the president.
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This report has been published by Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights on July 27, 2005.