Maldives Judge Aisha Shujune Mohamed has been appointed to the elected to the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture.
The Foreign Ministry said that 36 out of 55 countries in the Subcommittee voted for the appointment of Judge Shujune UN office in Geneva, one of the first individuals from an Asian nation to be elected to the committee.
Judge Shujune is one of the founder members of the Maldives Detainee Network, now the ‘Maldives Democracy Network’.
The 20 member UN subcommittee works with governments to prevent torture and makes unannounced visits to prisons and detention centres to ensure detainees are not being mistreated.
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