By BOB KARASHANI More by this AuthorThe African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered Tanzania to remove corporal punishment from its laws to bring them in line with the Charter establishing the court. A further appeal to the Court of Appeal was also dismissed in April 2013. Maige then filed his application to the African court in June 2017. In its ruling, the African court noted that although the district court had imposed both the prison and caning sentence, which was subsequently upheld by both the High Court and the Court of Appeal, there was no record of whether the caning sentence "was actually carried out". The court cited Article 13(6) (e) of the Tanzanian constitution which "proscribes torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and the country's Corporal Punishment Act "which is meant to regulate the infliction of corporal punishment".

Source: Daily Nation September 16, 2023 17:37 UTC