Suwaibou Touray, the vice chairman to the committee and member for Wuli East, said that the committee had extensive consultation with relevant stakeholders and also made reference to the criminal code as well as International Law instruments such as the United Nations Convention on Torture and other, or cruel, inhuman degrading treatment or punishment (1987) as well as the declaration on the protection of all persons from being subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (1975).
He said in this Act, torture means any act or omission, by which severe pain or suffering whether physical or mental, is internationally inflicted on a person by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of any person, whether acting in an official or private capacity, for such purposes as obtaining information or a confession from the person or any other person; punishing that person for an act he/she or any other person has committed or is suspected of having committed or of planning to commit or intimidating or coercing the person or any other person to do, or to refrain from doing any act.
According to him, the committee has recommended that the word “of” be deleted in subsection 1(b) to be read as “punishing that person for an act he or she or any other person has committed, or is suspected of having committed or planning to commit.
The Gambia government has announced that it will develop an “Implementation Logical Framework” that would set out the roadmap for the implementation of the accepted TRRC recommendations.
The Chief Justice of The Gambia,His Lordship Hassan B. Jallow on the 1st and 2nd of September 2020 presided over the promotion and swearing-in of 16 Magistrates to various positions. The event also marked the appointment of a first chief magistrate in the history of the Judiciary of The Gambia.
Last week, President Joe Biden directly highlighted Africell’s positive investments in Africa.
Bakary Tamba, an ex-prison warden yesterday testified before the TRRC, narrating how he was arrested, detained at Mile 2 Prison and tortured at the NIA Headquarters in Banjul.
