I WAS appalled to learn that students are being given demonstrations to show how whippings are carried out on criminal offenders and that they are also being shown photographs of the bleeding buttocks of convicts who were whipped for various offences.
While realising that those who commit heinous crimes such as rape must be punished, the fact that the flogger is instructed to inflict maximum pain on criminals and that he “dons a surgical mask to prevent bits of skin and flesh from flying at his face” clearly indicates that this barbaric punishment violates Article 5 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, which states that “no one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment”.
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