THE KINGDOM OF LESOTHO COMBINED SECOND TO EIGHTH PERIODIC REPORT UNDER THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS AND INITIAL REPORT UNDER THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA reported to the Police Complaints Authority and those in which members of the public have claimed damages against the government for acts of torture committed by the police and by the LDF as illustrated in tables A2 and A3 above. The police also resort to use to live ammunition to suppress riots and at times this lead to deaths and injury of members of the public. Corporal punishment in the penal system 47. It is important to indicate that although section 8(2) and section 307 of the CP&E authorise corporal punishment which had been part of the penal system of Lesotho for a long time, it has however been declared inhuman and degrading and is no longer administered. 48. Corporal punishment is no longer practiced as a form of punishment in the Lesotho’s Penal system including in correctional institutions as well as the Juvenile Training Centre (JTC) where children in conflict with the law are rehabilitated. Corporal punishment in schools 49. Children’s Protection and Welfare Act No. 7 of 2011 (CPWA), abolishes corporal punishment together with any other form of punishment which is cruel, inhuman and degrading on children in execution of a sentence for a juvenile offence.24 50. Section 4 of Education Act No. 3 of 2010 explicitly prohibits subjection of learners to cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment in schools. Although the section does not expressly forbid corporal punishment in schools, the Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Education Act mention specifically that the Act abolishes corporal punishment in schools in accordance with section 8 of the Constitution of Lesotho.25 24 25 CPWA, section 161. Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Education Act, paragraph 5. 24