Human Rights in Africa: Hearing Before the Subcommittees on Africa and on International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, October 31, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 93 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... detainees are political activists . In Kenya the well - known writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o was detained alongside elected Members of Parliament . In Zaire , Angola , and Mo- zambique numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses are now held . While long ...
... detainees are political activists . In Kenya the well - known writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o was detained alongside elected Members of Parliament . In Zaire , Angola , and Mo- zambique numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses are now held . While long ...
Pagina 24
... detainees held under martial law and this figure includes many women and children . Due process rights are grossly denied to those tried before martial law courts . In no case known to Amnesty International has a defendant been per ...
... detainees held under martial law and this figure includes many women and children . Due process rights are grossly denied to those tried before martial law courts . In no case known to Amnesty International has a defendant been per ...
Pagina 26
... detainees have been active politically ; in Kenya , the well - known writer , Ngugi wa Thiong'o , was detained alongside elected members of parliament ; in Zaire and Mozambique numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses are held , presumably to ...
... detainees have been active politically ; in Kenya , the well - known writer , Ngugi wa Thiong'o , was detained alongside elected members of parliament ; in Zaire and Mozambique numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses are held , presumably to ...
Pagina 27
... detainees are able to challenge their im- prisonment either before the courts or even before some kind of administrative tribunal of the type which reviews detentions under the emergency powers ( though not under martial law ) in ...
... detainees are able to challenge their im- prisonment either before the courts or even before some kind of administrative tribunal of the type which reviews detentions under the emergency powers ( though not under martial law ) in ...
Pagina 28
... detainees to confess to recruiting nationalist guerrillas : this offense carries a mandatory death penalty . Most African legal systems provide for the use of the death penalty , al- though the frequency with which it is inflicted ...
... detainees to confess to recruiting nationalist guerrillas : this offense carries a mandatory death penalty . Most African legal systems provide for the use of the death penalty , al- though the frequency with which it is inflicted ...
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African Commission African countries alleged American Amnesty International arrested believe BONKER Cameroon Central African Empire Chairman Charter church civil and political civilians COHEN commitment concerned Congress conspiracy continued convicted critical death penalty delegates democratic Department detainees detention economic efforts Equatorial Guinea establishment Ethiopia ethnic example executed FENWICK foreign service officers freedom GASTIL Ghana GRANT groups human rights conditions human rights officer human rights policy human rights problems human rights reporting human rights situation human rights violations imprisonment individual issues Kinshasa Liberia MCGEE Mekane Yesus Church ment Monrovia Moroccan Morocco Mozambique Nigeria offenses organizations political prisoners political rights positive President Mobutu prison conditions question regional Rhodesia rights in Africa seminar sentences SOLARZ Somalia South Africa statement Subcommittee Tanzania tion torture trial U.S. Embassy U.S. foreign policy Uganda United Nations violations of human WEINSTEIN Western Sahara Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe
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Pagina 25 - Everyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention shall be decided speedily by a court and his release ordered if the detention is not lawful.
Pagina 53 - TO REAFFIRM faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and TO ESTABLISH conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained...
Pagina 31 - torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind...
Pagina 31 - No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
Pagina 53 - Chairman of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity shall draw lots to decide the names of those members referred to in Article 36.
Pagina 31 - State shall keep under systematic review interrogation methods and practices as well as arrangements for the custody and treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in its territory, with a view to preventing any cases of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Pagina 31 - ... of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.
Pagina 31 - Nations, as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Pagina 53 - DEDICATED to the general progress of Africa; PERSUADED that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to the Principles of which we reaffirm our adherence, provide a solid foundation for peaceful and positive co-operation among States...
Pagina 31 - ... purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating him or other persons. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions to the extent consistent with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. 2. Torture constitutes an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.