Ten prisoners have been found guilty of raping dozens of female inmates during a violent riot at an overcrowded jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven women and a teenage girl testified that they were repeatedly raped during a three-day riot at Kasapa Central Prison near Lubumbashi in 2020.
Some female detainees became pregnant and contracted sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The ten men were fined and ordered to serve fifteen additional years in jail. Although some of the inmates were too frightened to give evidence, dozens testified before a military prosecutor that they had been raped during the riot.
