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ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Kiribati 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/kiribati/
[accessed 26 July
2021] TORTURE AND OTHER
CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT The constitution
prohibits such practices, and there were no reports that government officials
employed them. Impunity was not a
problem in the security forces. PRISON AND DETENTION
CENTER CONDITIONS Administration:
Although authorities permit complaints by inmates about inhuman conditions,
authorities did not report receiving any such complaints or undertake any
investigations in the year to September. Independent
Monitoring: The government permits monitoring visits by independent human
rights observers, but there were no reported visits during the year. Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/kiribati/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 13 May
2020] DOES DUE PROCESS
PREVAIL IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL MATTERS? -- Due process guarantees are typically
respected during arrests, initial detentions, and trials. Detainees have
access to a lawyer, and defendants are usually granted bail while awaiting
trial. IS THERE PROTECTION
FROM THE ILLEGITIMATE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE AND FREEDOM FROM WAR AND
INSURGENCIES?
-- There were no reports of police brutality in 2017, and procedures for
punishing such abuse are effective. Prison conditions are not considered
harsh or inhumane. Kiribati has no army, relying on Australia and New Zealand
to provide defense assistance under bilateral agreements. The use of
traditional communal justice systems, which can include corporal punishment,
is increasingly rare. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78776.htm [accessed 3 February 2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61611.htm [accessed 4 July 2019] TORTURE
AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – The constitution
prohibits such practices, and there were no reports that government officials
employed them. Traditional village practice permits corporal punishment for
criminal acts and other transgressions. On some outer islands, village
associations occasionally ordered strokes with palm fronds to be administered
for public drunkenness and other minor offenses, such as petty theft.
Communal justice in the form of beatings and banishment sometimes occurred. All
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