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Out
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'Lip-stitching' police suspended
Pakistan
Silence
is golden…Pakistan police took the idiom a bit too seriously
when seven officers of the force were suspended following
allegations that they stitched up the lips of an abusive prisoner.
Muhammad Hussain, had been brought to a jail in Vehari in
the province of Punjab from the nearby prison in Multan on
22 June 2005.
Mr.
Hussain is said to have fought with a fellow inmate and a
police officer. Policemen allegedly used a needle and jute
yarn to silence Mr. Hussain who had been arrested on abduction
charges.
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The
seven police officers were suspended after Mr. Hussain
was visited by the officer investigating the incident.
Doctor Abdul Waheed the doctor who examined Mr. Hussain
said that, "He had torture signs on his fingers and
backs. The lips were also swollen and there were marks
of four stitches on his lips. He was in severe pain.
He was badly tortured."
The
decision to suspend the officers was taken by Deputy
Inspector-General Malik Mohammed Iqbal. "I only know
that an under-trial prisoner, Mohammed Hussain, initially
accused police of torturing him and sewing his lips.
Later he changed his statement and said he sewed up
his lips with his own hand," said Mr. Iqbal.
It
was in judicial custody that the alleged stitching took
place, reportedly to stop the prisoner hurling abuse.
Mr. Hussain was later returned to Multan jail.
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Source:
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"Immigration"
bludgeoned to death
Tanzania
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A
man whose dog called "Immigration" was sentenced to
death by a judge was quoted in papers saying that the
Tanzanian police, unwilling to spare a bullet, forced
him to bludgeon his dog to death.
Newspapers
reporting from remote Kasanga village in Rukawa province,
also quoted Anatoly Kachela as saying the one-year-old
mongrel bitch was expecting puppies at the time. Immigration
was sentenced to death by hanging last month by primary
court magistrate Onesmo Zunda for bearing the name of
"a highly respected and law-abiding government department."
The
case has caused a storm in Tanzania and government officials
have ordered an enquiry into what has become a highly
embarrassing issue. "I pleaded with them to stay the
execution, but they said the sentence had to be carried
out on the spot," said Kachela.
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Sketch
by: Chenthil Paramasivam
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"I
told them I could not do that to Immigration and asked them
to implement the sentence themselves, but they refused." Kachela
said the club he used to beat his dog to death was supplied
by a senior immigration department official.
Breaking
down in tears as he recalled the killing, Kachela, 24 said
he loved Immigration who was a loyal guard dog who would scare
monkeys, warthogs and other wild animals away from his maize
farm.
Back
to student life
Uganda
Eighty-seven
prisoners including a 50 year old and 30 on the death row
are to sit in examinations set by the Uganda National Examinations
Board (Uneb). Mr. John Kagambo, Senior Welfare Officer, confirmed
that the candidates have been well prepared and are ready
to sit in the examinations.
"The
candidates are already in examination mood and are just waiting
for the D-Day. They include 30 on death row," said Kagambo
who also doubles up as the education officer at upper prisons.
He said for the next two months, the prisoners will not be
addressed as prisoners but as candidates with their index
numbers. Subjects include Geography, Economics, Mathematics
and Divinity.
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