National Centre for Human Rights conducts workshops on combating torture

AMMAN — The National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) on Thursday concluded two training workshops in Aqaba and Maan on combating torture, which target activists in civil society organisations concerned with human rights and activists in social work.

The two workshops, held by the NCHR within the Karama project in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, Mizan Law Group for Human Rights and the Danish Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (Dignity), focused on the crime of torture as one of the most serious crimes violating human dignity.

The trainers at the two workshops reviewed the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, explaining the convention itself and its most prominent theoretical and practical manifestations, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

They also tackled the cases of torture in correctional and rehabilitation centres, administrative detention centres and temporary detention, in addition to cases occurring inside security centres or in the locations where suspects are arrested.