AREAS OF GOOD PRACTICE
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Reduction of prison population
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Quality of leadership and prison management: Tete provincial prison 33
Collaboration with civil society and NGOs
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Open prisons and numerus clausus
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Implementation of 1997 recommendations
Requests for information
Further measures proposed by the Special Rapporteur
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ANNEX
List of foreigners interviewed
The Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of detention
in Africa
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PRISONS IN MOZAMBIQUE
INTRODUCTION
Dates of the visit and composition of the delegation
D
r Vera Chirwa, Special Rapporteur (SR) on prisons and conditions of
detention in Africa (a mechanism of the African Commission on Human and
Peoples' Rights) visited places of detention in Mozambique between 4''' and 14'h
April 2001. Her mission followed a first visit to Mozambique by Prof. E.V.O.
Dankwa, then Special Rapporteur, between 14'h and 24' December 1997.
The objectives of the second visit were:
To assess the implementation of the recommendations made by the
SR in 1997 and the conditions of detention in Mozambique;
- To document the impact on the conditions of detention of the floods
that Mozambique faced in February 2000 and;
- To express the ACHPR's sympathy to Mozambique for the hardships
caused by the floods and promote the African Charter on Human and
Peoples' rights.
The Special Rapporteur was accompanied by:
- Dr. Alpha Oumar Sankarella Diallo, Physician in chief, Security and
Prison Services of Guinea;
- Audrey Pascaud, Assistant, France;
Maria José Anastacio, Interpreter, Portugal.
The ACHPR wishes to thank them for their important contribution to this visit.
Places visited
The delegation visited the following prisons and detention centres :
Maputo Central Prison;
Maputo Civil Prison;
- Machava High Security Prison in Maputo;
- Mabalane Open Prison;
- Maximum Security Prison in Tete;
- Tete Central Prison;