SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies - The urgency to unravel the torture and inhuman treatments system one year after the Transition
In a lengthy briefing, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) identify a range of anti-torture law reforms for Sudan’s transitional government to prioritise.
Among ACJPS’s recommendations include:
· Ratifying key international human rights treaty bodies especially the Convention Against Torture (CAT).
· Amending the Evidence Act to repeal provisions permitting judges to admit confessions obtained through torture
· Repealing provisions granting immunity from prosecution for human rights violations committed by state security officials.
· Establishing a transitional justice mechanism to guarantee torture victimd full access to justice, reparation, rehabilitation and reconciliation.
· Ensuring that investigation committees established to investigate human rights violations are Independent and Impartial and operate transparently.
· Abolish National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) detention centres and NISS-controlled sections of prisons, improving conditions of detention and ensuring access to lawyers and doctors for detained individuals.