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the comprehensive recommendations made by the Committee against Torture in relation
to Indonesia, including the establishment of a reliable independent complaints system, the
proper investigation of allegations of torture, reducing the length of pre-trial detention,
police reform, measures, human rights training of public officials and the rehabilitation of
torture victims;
•
reports of systematic torture by Indonesian military against detainees suspected of
supporting the armed separatist Free Aceh Movement; and
•
the comprehensive recommendations made by Human Rights Watch in relation to torture
and also the position of domestic workers in Indonesia.
Jordan
The ACJ recommends that the Jordan National Centre for Human Rights (JNCHR) urges its
Government to address the following issues:
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the need for Jordan to become a party to the First Optional Protocol, the OPCAT and the
Refugee Convention.
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The need to address the recommendations of the Committee against Torture and the HRC;
•
the lack of a definition of torture in Jordanian law;
•
the failure to subject all allegations of torture to an independent and impartial
investigations;
•
the sentencing to death or imprisonment of individuals on the basis of confessions
allegedly extracted after torture;
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the continuing application of corporal punishment;
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the expulsion by Jordan of individuals to countries in which they may face torture or other
ill-treatment;
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the lack of education and training of police and other disciplinary services in relation to
the prohibition on torture and ill-treatment;
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the need to eliminate incommunicado detention; and
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the practice of ‘honour’ crimes
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