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

这项研究将是对1986年至1992年期间因真实的或被认为反对当时的肯尼亚总统丹尼尔·阿拉普·莫伊而在臭名昭著的Nyayo酷刑室被拘留、遭受酷刑和各种形式暴力的人的生活经历的研究。亲身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。在历史背景的预览中，Nyayo酷刑室包括牢房，房间和走廊（用于审讯和酷刑），位于Nyayo房屋，这是肯尼亚首都内罗毕中心的一座建筑。虽然该建筑物包含了不同部委的公共办公室，但不同的楼层和地下室被重新设计并改造成拘留和酷刑牢房，在那里，暴力甚至死亡被释放在反对或被认为反对政府的人身上。因此，这座建筑的恶名是从幸存者的可怕证词中萌芽的，他们描述了如何被蒙上眼睛，脖子被剥光，挨饿，淹死，殴打，刺伤，致残，甚至导致不育。这座建筑还记录了高水平的自杀事件，人们会从高层跳下，要么试图逃跑，要么被杀，要么被推出去掩盖他们所经历的暴力和酷刑。暴力是由忠于总统并接受过酷刑审讯训练的“特别分支警察”执行的。这些黑暗的日子是在1986年至1992年之间，当时有不同的政治斗争，多党民主，选举改革和良好的治理。1993年，特别分支改为“情报处”，但不对外开放。2003年，国家发生政权更迭，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调查这些问题，并向公众开放。法院下令对一些幸存者进行赔偿，虽然有些人的案件仍在法院审理。肯尼亚最终于2017年颁布了《酷刑预防法》。因此，本研究将是定性研究，将探讨Nyayo酷刑室幸存者的生活经历。研究参与者将通过不同的公开证词来确定，包括在线生活传记和联系人。本研究将以非随机立意及滚雪球抽样方式抽取10名参与者，并以开放式、深度半结构式访谈方式收集资料。还将使用语音记录。将使用归纳和演绎潜在主题分析相结合的方法，并向参与者展示和分享数据。研究将完全遵守爱丁堡大学的伦理准则和肯尼亚伦理研究准则。

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.