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People's
Majlis members support creating committee to look into work of
detaining authorities
20/04/2005-People's
Majlis (parliament) members have spoken on Monday in support
of creating an ad hoc committee of the Majlis to investigate
the manner in which detaining authorities have dealt with and
continue to deal with inmates confined for investigation
purposes or serving sentences.
This support was expressed in the debate that is currently
underway in the Majlis on the motion moved by Male member
Ibrahim Ismail. Ibrahim’s motion moved during the previous
sitting of the Majlis was due to the current expression of
public concern over the manner in which inmates are treated,
the declining public confidence in law enforcement authorities
being injurious to the national interest, and enhancing public
confidence in law enforcement authorities being relevant for
serving the larger national interest.
During the debate, it was also proposed that the recommended
ad hoc committee be constituted with five members of the
Majlis, and that the committee be entrusted with the mandate
to investigate the treatment previously given, and which is
now being given to inmates kept in confinement, and to submit
a report to the Majlis containing measures that can be
implemented immediately and in the future towards protecting
the human and legal rights of such inmates.
In addition to the 14 Members who spoke on the matter,
Attorney General Dr Hassan Saeed and the Minister for Defence
and National Security Ismail Shafeeu also spoke at Monday’s
session. At the close of the committee stage, 18 Members were
still in queue to speak, the Majlis secretariat said.
The sitting, attended by 42 members, was chaired by Speaker
Ahmed Zahir.
The Majlis will meet next Monday, 25 April, for its fifteenth
sitting this session.
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