Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:00:10 +0000 BARELY a week after the Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) and the Human Rights Commission (HRC) jointly presented a report on criminalisation of torture in Zambia and the Anti-torture draft bill to Government, Zambia Police Service is the first to be found wanting. This time round, it is a fusion of extortion, harassment, false imprisonment and torture of innocent Nyumba Yanga residents. Reports of some police officers harassing and detaining innocent residents while demanding money from them have become commonplace, and it is the reluctance to decisively and firmly deal with such vices that has made the Police Service continue to harbour bad eggs, thereby allow unscrupulous officers perpetrate unlawful acts in society. The inhuman and degrading treatment to which three Nyumba Yunga residents were subjected to by police officers from the local police post in the pretext of conducting night patrols in the area does not only make […]
