Sierra Leone: Visits & Communications
Correspondence from 2004
The record of correspondence for 2004 is excerpted from the official United Nations report, E/CN.4/2004/7/Add.1.
Communication received
By letter dated 11 September 2003, the Government of Sierra Leone provided additional information concerning allegations surrounding the health of Solomon Y.B. Rogers, a senior member of the rebel RUF movement who had died in prison on 21 July 2001. The information provided by Dr. J.D. Sandy, Medical Officer in Charge, Pademba Road Prison, Freetown, indicates that the cause of Mr. Rogers’s death was a cerebrovascular accident (stroke) due to severe hypertension.
Correspondence from 2003
The record of correspondence for 2003 is excerpted from the official United Nations report, E/CN.4/2003/Add.1.
Communication sent
On 2 September 2002, the Special Rapporteur jojtnly with the Special Rapporteur on torture sent an allegation to the Government of Sierra Leone relating to the following case:
Solomon Y.B. Rogers, a 69-year-old senior Revolutionary United Front (RUF) representative, died in Pademba Road prison on 20 July 2001. He is reported to have been detained there since May 2000. According to the information received, he was a diabetic patient, ill and suffering from palpitations, hypertension and swollen feet. In the days preceding his death he reportedly had been provided with medical care by the prison doctor. Concerns have however been expressed that Solomon Rogers was not given access to specialist medical attention. It is reported that it was only when another prisoner, who had reportedly witnessed his health worsening, called for help that he was transferred to the prison infirmary. He reportedly died hours later.
Correspondence from 1983-2002
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has been corresponding with Governments regarding alleged violations since the mandate was established over two decades ago. While the Project on Extrajudicial Executions is making efforts to provide easily browsed versions of as many years as possible, much of the earlier correspondence is available only in the PDF versions of reports from 1983 to the present.