In celebrating the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (IDSVT), today, Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) condemns the widespread occurrence of torture in Namibia as well as the perfunctory and haphazard fashion in which the Government of Namibia (GoN) carries out its obligations under international law.

On December 12 1997, the UN designated today, June 26, as IDSVT in order to emphasize the indispensability of the freedom from torture and other cruel,