RECOMMENDATION
The State party should review the composition of the Police Integrity Commission to ensure that its independence is guaranteed. The State party should also ensure that complaints lodged by alleged victims of torture or ill-treatment are thoroughly and impartially investigated and that those responsible are prosecuted and punished with appropriate penalties.
| Recommendation No: | ICCPR-15 |
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| Recommendation Year: | 2012 |
| Recommendation Text: | The State party should review the composition of the Police Integrity Commission to ensure that its independence is guaranteed. The State party should also ensure that complaints lodged by alleged victims of torture or ill-treatment are thoroughly and impartially investigated and that those responsible are prosecuted and punished with appropriate penalties. |
| Convention/Treaty Body: | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
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Related Human Rights Articles
ICCPR Article 7 - The right to be free from inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
ICCPR Article 14 - The right to equality before the law; the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and to have a fair and public hearing.
Stakeholders
Human Rights Commission of Maldives (HRCM)
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National Integrity Commission (NIC)
Relevant Articles of the Constitution
54 - No person shall be subjected to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment, or to torture.
Relevant Legislation Articles
18 - Commission (HRCM) should investigate cases lodged to the commission....
Relevant Regulations & Policies
No Relevant Regulations & Policies
Relevant Articles of other Human Rights Conventions
CRPD Article 15 - Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
CAT Article 7 - CAT Article 7
1. The State Party in the territory under whose jurisdiction a person alleged to have committed any offence referred to in article 4 is found shall in the cases contemplated in article 5, if it does not extradite him, submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution.
2. These authorities shall take their decision in the same manner as in the case of any ordinary offence of a serious nature under the law of that State. In the cases referred to in article 5, paragraph 2, the standards of evidence required for prosecution and conviction shall in no way be less stringent than those which apply in the cases referred to in article 5, paragraph 1.
3. Any person regarding whom proceedings are brought in connection with any of the offences referred to in article 4 shall be guaranteed fair treatment at all stages of the proceedings.
CMW Article 10 - Freedom from Torture
Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
No Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
Related SDGs
GOAL 16
Categories
Torture and Ill treatment