Alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture on its examination of Kenya
PRI and its partner organisation, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), submitted an alternative report regarding the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Kenya on the occasion of the examination of Kenya’s second report under the Convention to be reviewed in May 2013.
In the report, PRI and FHRI providing additional information on the recently drafted Prevention of Torture Bill, which defines and penalises torture as a distinct offence in Kenya (Article 2 of the Convention against Torture); on overcrowding in prisons resulting in torture and other ill-treatment (Article 11 of the Convention); and on the implementation by Kenya of Article 16 of the Convention, with specific reference to the application of the death penalty.