The SAHRC welcomed the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa this week on the decision to place on parole selected categories of sentenced offenders. day44oflockdown
Cape Town - The South African Human Rights Commission has urged government to ensure that all people who have been arrested for petty offences under the coronavirus lockdown regulations be released and warned to appear in court on a future date.
This was in line with the recent advisory recommendations issued by the commission under its national preventive mechanism mandate to the state. These advisory recommendations sought to advance the preventive mandate and were part of an ongoing and constructive dialogue with relevant authorities, providing concrete recommendations to improve the system of deprivation of liberty over the long-term.
"The declaration of a national state of disaster equally introduced a suspension of visitation to places of deprivation of liberty, such as correctional centres, police cells, for example, and further limitations on those in detention was also declared.
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