Press Freedoms
59. Take the necessary measures that ensure freedom of expression and access
to information.
Death Penalty and Torture and Cruel and Inhuman Treatment and
Punishment
60. In its next report provide the number of persons on death row.
61. To observe the moratorium on the death penalty and take measures for its
total abolition.
62. Takes urgent and concrete measures to abolish laws that allow corporal
punishment including stoning, amputation, cross-amputation and whipping.
63. Should include standards like the Robben Island Guidelines in the human
rights program of Sudan Police College and the training of prison officers.
64. Consider enacting a law criminalizing torture.
65. Appoints an independent commission to investigate all extrajudicial
executions, enforced disappearances and torture by the police and make
public its findings.
National Security Act
66. Repeal Article 52(3) of the National Security Act 2010 that provides
members of the NISS and their associates with immunity from criminal and
civil procedures.
67. Takes immediate steps to close down all unofficial places of detention.
68. Adopts a holistic approach to prison decongestion and conditions of
detention in the prisons, ensuring that the Prison Service get adequate
resources, including funding to improve living conditions and access to
health care in prisons and places of detention.
Women
69. Enacts legislation prohibiting female genital mutilations, violence and
other discriminatory practices against women.
70. Takes measures to ensure female participation at all levels of decision
making, including considering enacting a law on affirmative action.
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