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Promoting soft law on pre-trial justice in Lusaphone Africa
CSPRI-PPJA in partnership with the Mozambican Institute of Legal Aid (Insituto Patrocinio Assistencia Juridica, IPAJ) held a wokshop on 21 and 22 May 2014 to ...
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Rampant abuses after coup in Central African Republic, says Human Rights Watch
Members of the Seleka rebel coalition, which ousted President François Bozizé of the Central African Republic on March 24, 2013, have committed grave ...
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CSPRI hosts a roundtable on remand detention
The Chief Deputy Commissioner for Remand in the Department of Correctional Services, Ms Britta Rotmann, explained the thinking behind the final draft white ...
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SA Constitutional Court finds government liable for prisoner contracting TB in pre-trial detention
Mr Lee was detained at Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison in pre-trial detention from 1999 to 2004, appearing in court no fewer than 70 times. Mr Lee contracted ...
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SA’s failures in the international human-rights system
Lukas Muntingh's discussion of South Africa's failures in the in the internation human rights system was published on Thought Leader, a leading online opinion ...
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SALC and CHREAA launch study on nuisance-related arrests
The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and Malawi's Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) launched a report at the Golden ...
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Seven Kenyans detained for three years in Uganda
Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) on 4 October 2012 released a statement calling on the government of Kenya to address the plight of seven Kenyans arrested by ...
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South African Constitutional Court clarifies law on liability of police for unlawful detention after court appearance
The Constitutional Court on 14 May 2021 overturned a judgement of the Supreme Court of Appeal, which had limited the Minister of Police's liability for ...
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Submission on the budget (2012/13), strategic plan (2012/13 – 2016/17) and annual performance plan (2012/13) of DCS
On Tuesday 17 April, CSPRI delivered a submission on the budget vote (Vote 21, 2012/13), the strategic plan (2012/13 – 2016/17) and the annual performance plan ...
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Submission on the Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill B39-2010
On 24 August, CSPRI researcher, Clare Ballard, presented a submission to the Portfolio Committee for Justice and Constitutional Development on the proposed ...
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