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Link to UNCHR
E/CN.4/2001/NGO/64)
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-seventh Session
Item 11 (a) of the Provisional Agenda
CIVIL
AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
THE
QUESTION OF TORTURE AND DETENTION
Written
statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
a
non-governmental organization with general consultative status
Chaining
and shackling of prisoners in Thailand
1. According to
article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR), no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Further, article 16
of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) determines that each
State Party shall undertake to prevent – in any territory
under its jurisdiction – acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment when such acts are committed by, at the
instigation of, or with the consent or acquiescence of a public
official or other person acting in an official capacity.
Posted on 2001-01-30
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