NGO Urges Government to Criminalise Torture

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (Zimrights) has called on the country’s government to enact laws that make torture a criminal and cruel offence that cannot be pardoned.

Marking the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the forum’s director, Okay Machisa, pointed out that government should sign, ratify and domesticate the Charter against Torture.

Machisa stated that victims of torture should be rehabilitated, receive adequate, effective, prompt and proportional compensation to the gravity of the violation as recommended in the 2002 African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) between the government of Zimbabwe and the forum and various other domestic court orders which have been ignored by the Zimbabwean government."

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