Cabinet law committee approved the draft of a law for prohibiting torture in order to preserve human dignity and ensure the rights of suspects, accused and defendants. A press release from the committee stated that the law was approved in the committee’s meeting chaired by the justice minister after multifaceted discussions. The statement added that preserving human dignity, ensuring the rights of suspects and accused, prohibiting torture of suspects, and other persons in the crime detection, investigation, trial, punishment, protection of victims of torture, and provision of compensation were the main objectives of the law. The committee decided to forward the draft to the cabinet meeting for further scrutiny. Recently Attorney General Farid Hamidi had told that prisoners’ torture is illegal and the perpetrators will face legal actions. This comes as some human rights organisations including the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) had recently condemned torture and beatings of prisoners in Afghanistan’s jail by police.
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