Press Release: The images showing that Rev. Jean Kabuidibuidi was deported to torture

Pator Jean

Yesterday, Jonas Bergström, a Swedish refugee activist, recieved an email from pastor Jean Kabuidibuidi with pictures showing the damage that he has received since he was deported to the Congo. The images were displayed on TV4 News broadcast at 14:40. In the email rev. Jean wrote:

This is what has happened to me: I have been severely tortured and beaten, and there are pictures of damage that will show you the scars that will remain. I have been locked for security reasons, the person who has helped me to convey this message, I reserve myself to talk to you more and will talk to you in a video in more detail.

If the statement of Pastor Jean Kabuidibuidi is true, which very much suggests, it is a clear violation of the Swedish Utlänningslagen (Alien Act), Section 12 § 1.

If Jean has been subjected to torture, it is also a violation of the “Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, human or degrading treatment or punishment”, which Sweden ratified the in 1985. Sweden has been criticized by the UN to violate this convention 12 times, according to Amnesty.

“Crackdown in Kinshasa”

What an awful timing. The same day that Jean Kabuidibuidi have been deported to Kinshasa I recieve this newsletter from the human rights organization Enough, which is active in the Congo, Uganda and Sudan:

Crackdown in Kinshasa: Congo Government Bans Peaceful March, Cuts Broadcast Stations

Tensions in Congo’s capital are rising as the Congolese government took swift action this week to suppress opposition voices.

The government banned a peaceful march organized by Catholic religious leaders yesterday to commemorate the 20^th anniversary of what is known as the “Christians Massacre” and to protest the recent botched presidential and legislation elections. The anniversary marks the day in 1992 when several Christians were killed during a pro-democracy rally against the closure of a national conference to debate the Mobutu Sese Seko regime. Yesterday, soldiers met peaceful demonstrators with tear-gas and arrests. Congo’s Voice of the Voiceless rights group reports that three priests and two nuns have been imprisoned, and soldiers and police fired tear gas into church compounds to prevent people from participating.

Press Release: Death Threatened Dissident Expelled from Sweden During Great Secrecy

This picture was taken on the repository in Flen December 2011. Jean Kabuidibuidi spent 130 days in the repository in Flen before he finally was expelled yesterday, 23 February 2012. Photographer: #PastorJean team. Media may use the image freely.

A government critic from Congo Kinshasa was expelled during great secrecy last night from Skavsta airport, despite loud protests from Christian groups and human rights activists. The man, named Jean Kabuidibuidi, is the pastor of a Congolese church in Stockholm and has become known for openly criticizing the regime in his homeland. The police conducted the deportation despite the fact that Kabuidibuidi’s representative Claes Strömvall did not receive this confirmation until this morning, a procedure that the lawyer perceives as strange.

– The police did not give me any details yesterday, and when I asked why they said “security reasons”. We wanted to get information about when Jean Kabuidibuidi’s plane will land in Congo Kinshasa for friends to meet up at the airport, says Claes Strömvall.