over 2000 Sites (major public areas, main roads and motorways, pedestrian walkways), 300
Intelligent Traffic Surveillance (ITS) Cameras over 75 Sites and some 2000 handheld radio sets
for the police force. The project is being implemented. Moreover, cameras have been installed I n
78 police stations.
402. Although Mauritius has not signed the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
and its 1967 Protocol Convention, it does however attempt to treat applications for refugee status
or political asylum on a humanitarian, case to-case basis by facilitating their settlement in a friendly
country willing to receive them. Further it has not ratified the OAU Refugee Convention.
Nevertheless, Mauritius, with the assistance, of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, has facilitated the resettlement of 11 asylum seekers from the
Democratic Republic of Congo detained in Mauritius.
403. The Mutual Assistance in Criminal and Related Matters Act provides the framework for
international cooperation between Mauritius and foreign states in investigations, prosecutions or
proceedings concerning serious offences and related civil matters. Notably, it governs procedures
for assistance in evidence-gathering, transfer of detained persons to and from Mauritius, foreign
requests for restraining orders, foreign requests for enforcement of foreign restraining order or
confiscation and foreign requests for the location of the proceeds of crime.
404. The Prevention of Terrorism Act was amended in 2016 to provide for the reinforcement of
the legal framework against terrorism, and for related matters. The Constitution was amended in
November 2016 to provide for the imposition of restrictions on (a) the movement within Mauritius
and (b) the right of any person to leave Mauritius, pursuant to an order of a Court or a Judge of the
Supreme Court under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Section 15 of the Constitution providing
for the freedom of movement, was amended in 2016, to provide for the imposition of restrictions
on the movement within Mauritius or on the right of any person to leave Mauritius pursuant to an
order of a Court or a Judge of the Supreme Court under such law, being a law relating to offences
or acts of terrorism.
405. Section 206 (Outrage against public and religious morality) and section 282 (Stirring up
racial discrimination) of the Criminal Code Act were amended in 2018. Radio communication,
and technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical and electromagnetic
capabilities, and writing in different forms including writing by electronic means, communication
in the form of speed or other sound have now been captured.
ARTICLE 24- RIGHT TO SATISFACTORY ENVIRONMENT
All peoples shall have the right to a general satisfactory environment favorable to their
development.
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