Deported pastor says he was tortured STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 1 (UPI) -- A Christian pastor who lost a nine-year fight for asylum in Sweden says he was beaten and tortured when he arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jean Kabuidibuidi described his treatment in an e-mail to a Swedish supporter, The Local reported. He was taken from an immigration detention center near Stockholm last Friday and put on a plane to the DRC. "I have been severely tortured and beaten, and there are pictures of damage that will show you the scars that will remain," he wrote in an e-mail. Kabuidibuidi, 41, had been in Sweden since 2003. He requested asylum, saying his life was in danger because of his criticism of the current government in the DRC. Claes Stromvall, who has been representing Kabuidibuidi in Sweden, said the deportation was carried out with no advance notice. He is such a strong critic of the Congolese regime, and Congo is a dictatorship of divine grace. Everyone knows how they treat people there except the Swedish Migration Board," Stromvall told the newspaper Expressen.