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| Committee calls for end to searches |
| By The Standard |
| Published: 12/11/2008 |
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HONG KONG - A United Nations human rights body has urged the Hong Kong government to end routine body cavity searches of prisoners, saying the practice is only permissible as a last resort. In its latest report, the UN Committee against Torture expresses concern at what has become a routine practice, saying Hong Kong prison rules only provide for such possibility. The call to allow prisoners some dignity came at the committee's 41st session held from November 3 to 21 in Geneva to examine reports by China, Hong Kong, Macau and others on the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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