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Budgeting transparency for correctional services in SADC
- 7 March 2025
- SALC
Catering for prisoners’ needs in the national budget
Climate change and prisons in SADC
- 6 March 2025
- SALC
Ensuring timely adaptation to climate change in places of detention
‘No justification for the unjustifiable’: Lesotho’s ombud slams grand-scale torture, assault in Maseru prison
- 22 March 2024
- Carmel Rickard
Lesotho’s national ombud, Tlotliso Angelina Polaki, has issued a scathing report on massive-scale torture and assaults that took place in Maseru’s central correctional institution during December 2023, leaving about 95% of the inmates of the prison injured, one dead and one who is now wheelchair-bound and will never walk again.
Executive interference in Ugandan court decisions continues – this time by the justice minister
- 21 March 2024
- Carmel Rickard
Uganda’s minister of justice, Norbert Mao, has taken a leaf straight from the book of the country’s president, Yoweri Museveni. This week, the minister wrote to the principal judge of the Ugandan high court, asking that the judge directly intervene in a matter that has been brought to his attention by an MP on behalf of a constituent. Mao asked for the ‘immediate administrative intervention’ in the matter by the principal judge. Earlier this year, Museveni wrote a similar letter to the chief justice of Uganda, also requesting intervention in a matter, and the CJ later indicated that this was not the first time it had happened.