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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in St. Vincent
& the Grenadines. Some of these
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ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Saint-Vincent-and-the-Grenadines U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 [accessed 8 August
2021] PRISON AND DETENTION
CENTER CONDITIONS Prison conditions
were less than adequate, although they varied depending on the facility. Key
problems with prison facilities included understaffing, overcrowding, gang
activity, the inability to control contraband, and limited space to segregate
noncompliant and juvenile prisoners. Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/st-vincent-and-grenadines/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 18 May
2020] F2. DOES DUE PROCESS
PREVAIL IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL MATTERS? Detainees and
defendants are guaranteed a range of legal rights, which are mostly respected
in practice. However, there is a significant case backlog, caused in large
part by personnel shortages in local courts. According to the US State
Department, about 20 people have been held in pretrial detention for longer
than two years, with many of these cases involving delays in obtaining
psychiatric evaluations of the defendant. St. Vincent police
charge 4 cops for assault, grievous bodily harm I-Witness News
Legacy Site, Kingstown, 10 July 2009 www.iwnsvg.com/2009/07/10/st-vincent-police-charge-4-cops-for-assault-grievous-bodily-harm/ [accessed 14
September 2014] Police here have charged
four of their colleagues, two corporals and two constables, with assault and
causing grievous bodily harm. The charges stem
from an incident last November that reportedly left one of two teenage
youths, then 14 and 15, hospitalized and unconscious for seven days. The cops pleaded
not guilty to the charges when they appeared in court in Kingstown on
Thursday. They were released
on EC$800 (US$300) bail with one surety and are carded to reappear in court
on September 22. I Witness-News was
unable to verify whether the cops had been relieved of duty pending the
outcome of the case. Search … AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL For more
articles:: Search Amnesty
International’s website www.amnesty.org/en/search/?q=xxxxxx+torture&ref=&year=&lang=en&adv=1&sort=relevance [accessed 14 January 2019] Scroll
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EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119173.htm [accessed 12
February 2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119173.htm [accessed 7 July
2019] TORTURE
AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – Although the law
prohibits such practices, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Human Rights Association (SVGHRA) asserted that many
confessions resulted from unwarranted police practices, including the use of
physical force during detention. The SVGHRA complained that the government
failed to investigate adequately allegations of abuse or punish those police
officers responsible for such abuses. On November 17, two
teenagers, Jemark Jackson and Kemron
McDowald, claimed police officers beat them with a
hose and the butt of a rifle and kicked them in the stomach and chest. Both
required medical attention after their release from custody, and Jackson, who
stated that he was hit so hard in the head his ear began to bleed, was
hospitalized for seven days. The incident was under investigation at year's
end. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/st-vincent-and-grenadines [accessed 12
February 2013] LONG
URL ç 2009 Country Reports begin on Page 21 [accessed 13 May
2020] The judicial system
is independent. The highest court is the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
(based in Saint Lucia), which includes a court of appeals and a high court.
Litigants have a right of ultimate appeal, under certain circumstances, to
the Caribbean Court of Justice. The independent Saint Vincent Human Rights
Association has criticized long judicial delays and a large backlog of cases
caused by personnel shortages in the local judiciary. It has also charged
that the executive branch at times exerts inordinate influence over the
courts. All
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