South Sudan: Inhuman sentencing of children

Submitted by lratledge on

Corporal punishment, life imprisonment and the death penalty are prohibited for children under South Sudanese law, but the relevant provisions do not make it clear that this prohibition should apply to all people who were under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offence. As such, there is a lack of clarity in the prohibition on inhuman sentencing of children.

A report was initially drafted for CRIN in November 2010 prior to South Sudan’s independence that addressed sentencing in the Northern and Southern States of Sudan. This report was published in November 2015 to detail inhuman sentencing of children in only South Sudan.

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