Protect rights and safety of prisoners

There is also need to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Protect rights and safety of prisoners

By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

By Josephine Namukasa

Releasing petty offenders from prisons is one of the measures that has been taken during the COVID-19 period to improve prison conditions in Uganda.

It is evidence that we

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Protect rights and safety of prisoners

There is also need to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Protect rights and safety of prisoners

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