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(LEFT) Ex-political prisoner Ballo Kanteh shows the burns he suffered after melted plastic was dripped onto his skin by former Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh’s notorious hit-squad, the ‘Junglers’ at Mile 2 prison during his 18-year detention. For the first two years, he was held in a pitch-dark cell, permanently damaging his eyesight. His torturers cut off one of his nipples and beat him in his groin making him impotent.
(RIGHT) Cells in the high-security wing of the colonial era Mile 2 prison where Ballo Kanteh was held prisoner, along with hundreds of other detainees, including opposition politicians, journalists and human rights activists who fell foul of the Jammeh regime.