The Legal Resouces Foundation of Zambia is a non-profit making Foundation, providing legal aid, promoting human rights and litigating in the public interest. It fuctions in areas which directly affect the disadvantaged sectors of society in relation to violations of their fundamental rights and the enhancement of justice. I am writing in connection to page 8 and 9 of the LRF Newsletter Number 18, July 2000, and other parts pertaining to the above issue. I am concerned as a Zambian citizen hearing my own people being mistreated while we have in our country a set of laws and regulations made and approved by a people of sound mind.
Police have no right to torture a suspect.
It is not the police to find this guilty mind but the court. Therefore, I strongly feel police are not supposed to inflict any form of punishment but to leave every thing to the court of law. They do not know if he is innocent or not. Police are there to promote human rights and not to take away people's rights. The law protects even if someone has murdered another.