Malawi - August 2025

In a report released on 5 August, the Malawi Human Rights Commission revealed that prisoners at the country’s Mikuyu 1 Prison had been subjected to serious human rights abuses. The Commission’s investigation, carried out in January 2025, confirmed the death of one inmate from traumatic injury and found allegations that five inmates had been tortured to death and then buried in secret. It also established that prison staff had sanctioned beatings by prisoners against other inmates, that more than 100 prisoners were severely malnourished and that the abuses had contributed to a mental health crisis within the facility.

Sources: Malawi Human Rights Commission, Nation Online