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CNDH Regional Commission in Tangier organizes Round Table on the Practical Guide on Managing Hunger Strikes in Prisons

The Regional Human Rights Commission of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region (CRDH) will organize a Round table on the Practical Guide on managing Hunger Strikes in Prisons, on Tuesday 5 July 2022, at 4:00 pm in Tangier, Morocco.

This event is part of the implementation of the CRDH mandate and its missions related to visiting places of detention, monitoring the conditions and treatment of prisoners, and receiving their or their families’ complaints. The CRDH also holds hearing sessions with prisoners or their families whenever necessary and conducts mediation in cases of hunger strikes to preserve the right to life as the fundamental human right following Chapter 20 of the Moroccan Constitution.

This Round Table will be an opportunity to shed light on the contents, themes and objectives of this Practical Guide aiming at establishing a unified measure for hunger strikes in prisons in Morocco.  Participants will discuss setting a guiding framework for possible interventions and defining responsibilities of the relevant authorities to ensure the protection of prisoners’ rights, human dignity and physical and psychological integrity, consistent with the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the Malta Declaration and the Tokyo Declaration.

Directors of prisons and medical staff working in prisons, judges, attorneys, directors of regional health hospitals, media professionals and researchers in this field will debate this issue and share insights on the effective improvement of practices in prisons to guarantee it as a space for reform and reintegration into society.

The practical guide on managing hunger strikes in prisons was published in July 2021. It was elaborated by a Commission composed of the Ministry of Health, National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Presidency of the Public Prosecution, and General Delegation for Prisons Administration and Reintegration, in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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