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Focus: Linkage between corruption and torture

April 1, 2019September 21, 2020 ACHR Comment(0)

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in a report in 2014 recognized that “corrupt and malfunctioning criminal justice systems are a root cause of torture and ill-treatment of detainees”[1]. In 2014, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment highlighted the correlation between corruption and torture or […]

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