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Man dragged 400m by South African Police vehicle dies in detention
The man, a 27-year-old Mozambican taxi driver identified as Mido Macia, in detention of head injuries and internal bleeding, according to an initial post ...
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Mbena and others versus the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services
This is a judgment of the Eastern Cape Local Division at Port Elizabeth of the High Court of South Africa, and relates to a claim for damages arising from ...
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McCallum v South Africa, UN Doc CCPR/C/100/D/1818/2008 (2 November 2010)
The Human Rights Committee has found that South Africa violated a prisoner’s rights not to be tortured or treated in a cruel, inhuman or degrading manner and ...
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Min of Home Affairs v NICRO, Minister of Home Affairs and Others v NICRO and Others CCT 03-04 March 2004
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New Report: Overview and key findings COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia)
By L Muntingh, J Mangwanda, K Petersen, T Lorizzo and V Petrovic
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NGO asks Inspecting Judge to investigate illegal treatment of Pretoria escapees
Constitutional and legislative protocols breached during press conference held after recapture of three prisoners attempting to escape by climbing over a wall ...
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Niemand v The State Case CCT 28-00 Constitutional Court of South Africa October 2001
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Offender rehabilitation and reintegration: taking the White Paper on Corrections forward (Research Paper No. 10)
This research paper focuses on offender reintegration and based on international and domestic research, interrogates the notion of offender reintegration. In ...
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Op-ed: Law enforcement and DUI — how to curb South Africa’s road crash epidemic
The severity of the punishment, if caught, is not a deterrent to committing crime. If consumers of alcohol can be fairly certain that if they get behind the ...
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Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel and Inhumane Treatment (Research Paper No. 2)
South African ratified the UN Convention Against Torture in December 1998 and played a significant role in the drafting of the Optional Protocol to the ...
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