Examining the lived experience of the survivors of Nyayo House torture chambers in Kenya

这项研究将对1986年至1992年期间在臭名昭著的Nyayo房屋酷刑室中被拘留，折磨和遭受各种形式暴力的人的生活经历进行检查，因为他们真正或被认为反对当时的肯尼亚总统丹尼尔·托罗伊奇·阿拉普·莫伊。活生生的经历将包括幸存者在酷刑之前、期间和之后的感受、意见、看法、情绪和经历。这项研究将更多地关注他们的康复和重新融入社会的过程。在历史背景的快速预览中，Nyayo酷刑室包括牢房，房间和走廊（用于审讯和酷刑），位于肯尼亚首都内罗毕中心的Nyayo房屋内。虽然该建筑包含不同部门的公共办公室，但它的目的是；不同的楼层和地下室被重新设计，变成拘留室和酷刑室，对反对或被认为反对政府的人施加暴力甚至死亡。因此，这座建筑的耻辱源于幸存者的可怕证词，他们描述了他们是如何被蒙住眼睛，剥去脖子，挨饿，淹死，殴打，刺伤，致残，甚至无法生育的。该建筑也记录了高自杀率，人们会从高层跳下，要么试图逃脱，要么被杀害，要么被推倒，以掩盖他们经历的暴力和折磨。暴力是由忠于总统的“特种警察”执行的，他们接受过酷刑审讯的训练。这些黑暗的日子发生在1986年至1992年之间，当时有不同的政治斗争，要求多党民主、选举改革和良好的治理。这些分庭于1993年关闭，“特别部门”改为“情报部门”，但这些分庭不允许公众观看活动。2003年，该国经历了政权更迭，当时的总统退休，大多数幸存者出来分享他们的经历，成立了公共调查委员会来调查这些问题，法庭向公众开放。法院下令对一些幸存者进行赔偿，尽管一些幸存者的案件仍在法庭上审理。肯尼亚终于在2017年颁布了《防止酷刑法》。因此，这项研究将是定性研究，将探索尼亚约酷刑室幸存者的生活经历。研究参与者的身份将通过不同的公开证词来确定，这些证词包括在线生活传记和联系人。采用非随机、有目的、滚雪球式的抽样方式对10名参与者进行抽样。一个开放式的，深入的半结构化访谈将用于收集数据。录音也会被使用。将使用归纳和演绎潜在主题分析相结合的方法，并将数据展示并与参与者分享。这项研究将完全遵守爱丁堡大学的伦理准则和肯尼亚的伦理研究准则。

This study will be an examination of the lived experience of the people who were detained, tortured, and subjected to all forms of violence in the Infamous Nyayo house torture chambers for their real or perceived opposition to the then Kenyan president Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi between 1986 and 1992. The lived experience will encompass the feelings, opinions, perceptions, emotions, and experience of the survivors before, during and after torture. The study will focus more on their journey of rehabilitation and reintegration back into the community.On snap preview of the historical background, The Nyayo torture chambers comprises cells, rooms and hallways (which were meant for interrogation and torture) located in the Nyayo house which is a building in the centre of the Kenyan capital city in Nairobi. While the building contained public offices for different ministries as was intended for; different floors and the basement were re-engineered and converted into detention and torture cells where violence and even death was unleashed on the people who opposed or were perceived to oppose the government. The infamy of the building therefore sprouts from the gruesome testimony of the survivors who describes how were blind folded, stripped necked, starved, drowned, beaten, pricked, maimed, and even rendered infertile. The building also recorded high levels of suicide where people would jump from high floors either trying to escape of killed and pushed out to cover the violence and torture they had gone through. The violence was executed by the "Special branch police" who were loyal to the president and trained on interrogation through torture. These dark days were between 1986 and 1992 when there were different political struggles for multi-party democracy, electoral reforms, and good governance. The chambers were closed in 1993 and the "special branch" changed to "intelligence Service" however the chambers were closed for any public viewing of activities.In 2003 when the country experienced a regime change and the then president retired, most survivors came out to share their experiences, public inquest commissions were formed to investigate the issues and the chambers were open to public viewing. The court ordered the compensation of some survivors which was implemented although some still have their cases in court. Kenya finally enacted the Act on torture prevention in 2017.This research will therefore be qualitative research which will explore the lived experience of the survivors of the Nyayo torture chambers. Participants from the study will be identified though different public testimonies includes online life biographies and contacts. A non random purposive and snowball sampling will be used to sample 10 participants.An open-ended, in-depth semi structured interview will be used to collect data. Voice recording will also be used. A combination of Inductive and deductive latent thematic analysis will be used, and data will be presented and shared with participants.The study will be done in full compliance to the ethical guidelines of the University of Edinburgh and the Kenyan ethical research guidelines.