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Anti-torture bill overdue
Oped, Editorial, Published on 14/09/2021
» If there was ever a law that could deal with the notorious case of "Joe Ferrari" and the other policemen charged with torturing a drug suspect to death it would be the possible promulgation of the draft bill on the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act.
Voting to end torture
News, Editorial, Published on 11/03/2019
» Shortly after it was appointed by the new military regime in 2014, the National Legislative Assembly proposed a law that would criminalise torture and the government murders known as "enforced disappearances". Today, as it properly winds down to hand over to an elected legislature, the NLA is still considering the same bill. It is unlikely to pass before the election officially ends military-directed rule.