Efforts and Challenges in Protecting Prisoners’ Rights in Ilu Abba Bor and Buno Bedelle Zones

Asafa Tasgara; Birhanu Tobe; Gemechu Hassan

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Efforts and Challenges in Protecting Prisoners’ Rights in Ilu Abba Bor and Buno Bedelle Zones

Asafa Tasgara, Birhanu Tobe, Gemechu Hassan

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Received: 4 March 2021 Accepted: 11 May 2021 Published: 20 May 2021

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The paper strongly emphasizes on the prisoners’ rights in Oromia National Regional State particularly the prisoners’ rights of Bunno Bedele and I/A/Boor prison administration. Accordingly, the aim of this research is to is to test the extent to which rights of prisoners are enforced at the study area and then to suggest possible solutions for intervention or re-intervention (against any gap to be identified) to the stakeholders such as: The Prison Administration, Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the Judiciary. Thus, in order to identify the problems concerning the protections of prisoners’ right in the two zones’ Prison Administration, deep interviews and personal observations were conducted with prisoners and with top officials of different prison institutions. In doing so, the paper identified the problems concerning the protection of prisoners’ rights to food and water, free medical services, the right to sanitations, the right to bedding and clothing, the right to contact with families. Further, the existing proclamation and regulation regarding to the treatments of prisoners could not properly protect the rights of prisoners because both the proclamation and regulation not clearly provide the rights of prisoners as provided in other International Human Rights that directly related with protection of prisoners. Based on the findings, the researchers proposed the amendments of the existing regulations for the protections of prisoners’ rights and the need of a country-wide minimum standards and rules that govern every prisons institution of the country.

Published in	Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 9, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20210903.12
Page(s)	67-73
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Prisoners’ Rights, Prison Administration, International Human Rights Principle, Minimum Standard Rules, Minimum Standards

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Asafa Tasgara, Birhanu Tobe, Gemechu Hassan. Efforts and Challenges in Protecting Prisoners’ Rights in Ilu Abba Bor and Buno Bedelle Zones. Humanit Soc Sci. 2021;9(3):67-73. doi: 10.11648/j.hss.20210903.12

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Asafa Tasgara

Department of Civics and Ethical Studies, College of Social Science and Humanities, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia
Birhanu Tobe

Department of Civics and Ethical Studies, College of Social Science and Humanities, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia
Gemechu Hassan

Department of Civics and Ethical Studies, College of Social Science and Humanities, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia

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