Protection of the Human Rights of Certain Category of Prisoners

A/RES/32/121View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1978.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Detained Persons Hearings Human Rights Political Prisoners Torture and Other Cruel Treatment

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Requests Member States:

To take effective measures to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the abovementioned persons;

( b) To ensure, in particular, that s1;1ch persons are not subjected to torture or other cruel, mhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

Also to ensure that such p~rsons, in the ~etermination of any criminal charge agamst them, :ecelVf: a fair hearing by a competent, independent and 1mpartial tribunal established by law;

Calls upon Member States to examine periodically the possibility of releasing such persons as an act of clemency or by way of conditional release or otherwise.

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;;i; Rcsolution 217 A (Ill).

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