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Article: EASTERN CARIBBEAN-HUMAN RIGHTS: JUSTICE SYSTEM GETS MIXED REVIEW
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- February 18, 1997
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Patrick Smikle
Inter Press Service English News Wire
02-18-1997
BASSETERRE, Feb. 17 (IPS) -- Police forces that rely more on
confessions extracted by force than on evidence gathered through
investigative techniques. Court systems that are clogged because
of a lack of judges and other personnel. Eighteenth century prison
buildings that are overcrowded and unsanitary.
Not a pretty picture -- but that is how the U.S. State
Department's 1996 Human Rights Report describes the situation in
the Eastern Caribbean islands.
The recently published report cites the assessment of the St.
Vincent and the Grenadines Human Rights Association that close to
90 percent of convictions in criminal cases in the ...
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