Torture of Political Prisoners and Detainees in Southern Africa

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 80Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, published in 1978.

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7 topics

Apartheid Declarations Detained Persons Human Rights Violations Political Prisoners South Africa Torture and Other Cruel Treatment

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8 operative paragraphs

Condemns the South African régime far its continuing violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and thc Dcclaration on thc Protection of Ali Persons from Bcing Sl!lbjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;

Reiterates its deep aversion to the practice whcrcby the South African régime persistently subjects ali opponcnts of apartheid to summary banning, detention, imprisonment and somctimes murder;

Stronily condemns the practice of subjecting political detainccs and other victims of apartheid in South Africa to torture and other cruel, inhuman or dcgrading trcatment or punishment;

Strongly condemns, in particular, the arbitrary arrest, detention and torture which led to the murder of Stcphen Biko by agents of the racist minority régime of South Africa;

Demands that thc minority apartheid régime of South Africa:

Releas e all política! prisoncrs without precondition;

( b) Lift ali banning and housc arrcst orders imposed on opponents of apartheid;

Put an immediate cnd to the indiscriminate use of ~iolencc against peaceful demonstrators against apartheid and to thc persistcnt rccourse to torture of política! detainces;

ExpressC's its conviction that the martyrdom of Stephcn Biko and ali othcr nationalists murdercd in ~outh A~rican J?risons and_ thc ideals for which they fought w11l con~muc to ennch thc faith of the peoplcs of southcrn Afnca and other parts of the world in thcir struggle against apartheid and for racial cquality and the dignity of thc human person.

8 Deccmber 1977

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