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| UN Torture Prevention Team to Resume Rwanda Visit |
| 2018-03-04 |
| [All Africa] A team of United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Sherlocks has said it will resume its review of Rwanda's implementation of anti-torture policies. The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) had cut short its mission in the country last October citing obstruction by the government and fears of reprisal on interviewees. Kigali faulted the move saying it was in bad faith and that it would "consider its options in respect of the Optional Protocol." Rwanda is among 87 states that voluntarily ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. The SPT makes regular visits to the states to monitor and advise on how countries "can ensure that detained persons are free from torture and ill-treatment and have decent conditions of detention." The Sherlocks visit prisons, cop shoppes, detention centres for |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 So it's a training mission? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-04 13:34 |
| #1 Is rape considered torture? Asking for a UN friend. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-04 01:09 |