Torture by Police, Forced Disappearance & Other Ill Treatment In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
2025 gvnet.com/torture/Brunei.htm
|
|||||||||||
|
CAUTION: The following links
have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Brunei
Darussalam. Some of these links may
lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even
false. No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to
verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of Torture by Authorities are of
particular interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring the moral justification for inflicting pain or
inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment in order to obtain critical
information that may save countless lives, or to elicit a confession for a
criminal act, or to punish someone to teach him a lesson outside of the
courtroom. Perhaps your paper might
focus on some of the methods of torture, like fear, extreme temperatures,
starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, suffocation, or immersion in freezing
water. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the people acting in an official capacity who
perpetrate such cruelty. There is a
lot to the subject of Torture by Authorities.
Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper
resources that are available on-line. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Brunei U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/brunei/
[accessed 6 July
2021] TORTURE AND OTHER
CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT The law does not
specifically prohibit torture. Caning may be ordered for certain offenses
under both secular and sharia law, and it is mandatory for some offenses. The
Sharia Penal Code (SPC) includes offenses punishable by corporal and capital
punishments, including stoning to death, amputation of hands or feet, and
caning. The SPC prohibits caning persons younger than 15. Secular law
prohibits caning for women, girls, boys younger than eight, men older than
50, and those ruled unfit for caning by a doctor. Juvenile boys older than
eight may be caned with a “light rattan” stick. Canings were conducted in the
presence of a doctor, who could interrupt the punishment for medical reasons.
The government generally applied laws carrying a sentence of caning
impartially; the government sometimes deported foreigners in lieu of caning.
The sharia court did not hand down any sentences imposing corporal or capital
punishments. Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/brunei/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 11 May
2020] F3. IS THERE PROTECTION FROM THE ILLEGITIMATE
USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE AND FREEDOM FROM WAR AND INSURGENCIES? Phased amendments
to the new Sharia code permit the death penalty for drug-related offenses and
other, more serious offenses, but these amendments have not yet been enacted.
Brunei retained the death penalty for crimes including drug trafficking
before the new Sharia code was launched. Secular law allows for dozens of
offenses to be punished by caning. Prison conditions generally meet
international standards. Search … AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL For current
articles:: Search Amnesty
International Website www.amnesty.org/en/search/?q=brunei+torture&ref=&year=&lang=en&adv=1&sort=relevance [accessed 25 December
2018] Scroll
Down ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61602.htm [accessed 21 January
2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61602.htm [accessed 3 July
2019] TORTURE
AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – The law
prohibits mistreatment of prisoners, and there were no reports of such
mistreatment. Caning is mandatory for 42 drug‑related and other
criminal offenses, and it was included as part of the sentence in 80 percent
of criminal convictions. Canings were carried out in the presence of a
doctor, who had the authority to interrupt the punishment for medical
reasons. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/brunei [accessed 21 January
2013] LONG URL
ç 2009 Country Reports begin on Page 21 [accessed 11 May
2020] According to the
U.S. State Department’s human rights report, caning is mandatory for 42
criminal offenses, including immigration violations, and is commonly carried
out. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
ARTICLES. Cite this
webpage as: Patt, Prof. Martin, " Torture by Police, Forced
Disappearance & Other Ill Treatment in the early years of the 21st
Century- Brunei Darussalam", http://gvnet.com/torture/Brunei.htm,
[accessed <date>] |
