The regime is filling its filthy jails with political activists from the main liberation movement and its youth wing in Swaziland, the Peoples’ United Democratic Movement - PUDEMO.

Over the last years the King Mswati III’s autocracy has derided the liberation forces with constant harassment and arbitrary arrests on trumped up charges. Yesterday, the regime added to its litany of errors and terrible antics by the arrest of comrade I.B. Dlamini, the General Secretary of PUDEMO, who is currently kept at a place of torture, the detention station in Lavumisa, in the south of Swaziland.

All our comrades have been severely tortured since their round-up and arrest from the beginning of November 2005 on the trumped-up charges of high treason and sedition. We demand inspection by independent medical doctors to check on their condition. One of the accused comrade’s wife was also tortured to death this past Wednesday. The methods used are intended to force the comrades to admit to the charges so as to save their dear lives.

The people of Swaziland have a right to use whatever means necessary and possible to destroy their enemy and set themselves free. No restraint can be measured against a destructive autocracy bent on bringing the country to a complete crisis, and the only solace the people have is at any cost to charge against the evils of tyranny and royal slavery with all their might and power for their own freedom.

We pledge our unwavering support to the oppressed people of Swaziland in this dreadful hour and have confidence in their course to freedom and liberty.

We demand the release of our comrades with immediate effect and call on our government to stop this dangerous tendency and draw back from the road King Mswati III wants us to travel in Southern Africa. He must be stopped now before he plunges Swaziland into a full-scale war of retribution.

Swaziland deserves better than autocracy and the mistreatment of political activists and prisoners.