The Swaziland democracy activist arrested and charged with sedition after he criticised King Mswati III, the absolute monarch, said he was tortured by police.

Ncamiso Ngcamphalala said he almost died after he was tied with a rope to a bench and suffocated with a plastic bag for nearly three hours at Mafutseni police station.

Ngcamphalala, the Economic Freedom Fighters of Swaziland President, told Swati Newsweek, a news website, 'I could not breathe for nearly three hours.

In March 2020 Swaziland journalist and former government cabinet minister Mfomfo Nkambule said he was tortured by police after he wrote articles critical of King Mswati for the online newspaper Swaziland News.

Also in March 2020 the editor of Swaziland News Zweli Martin Dlamini told the South African Broadcasting Corporation's Media Monitor programme that police raided his home after he published articles in his newspaper.