UN / TORTURE ZEID

Speaking at an event on torture during interrogations on the sidelines of the General Assembly, UN human rights chief said that torture by law enforcement officials is a “destruction of public trust” and will “certainly exacerbate tensions and may lead to serious violence.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:11
• Production Date: 22 September 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS; TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL TREATMENT
• MAMS Id: 1976770
• Parent Id: 1976770
• Alternate Title: unifeed170922b

Description

STORY: UN / TORTURE ZEID
TRT: 1:11
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The torture of detainees who are captured and cannot defend themselves also creates enormous rage among the larger communities by feeding the desire for vengeance. Torture can generate growing concentrations of hatred and more violence.”
4. Med shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Officials require to enforce the law should not undermine the rule of law. If police break the law in pursuit of the law enforcement, the message is one of capricious and abusive power.”
6. Med shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“This destruction of public trust is profoundly damaging when added to the perception that police abuses and humiliations specific communities is tolerated based on economic, geographic, ethnic, religious or other distinctions, that will certainly exacerbate tensions and may lead to serious violence.”
8. Wide shot, conference room

Storyline

Speaking today (22 Sep) at an event on torture during interrogations, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said that torture by law enforcement officials is a “destruction of public trust” and will “certainly exacerbate tensions and may lead to serious violence.”

Commenting on torture of detainees who are captured and cannot defend themselves, Zeid said that it creates “enormous rage among the larger communities by feeding the desire for vengeance.” He added “torture can generate growing concentrations of hatred and more violence.”

Referring to the principle of the function of police force, Zeid said “officials require to enforce the law should not undermine the rule of law. If police break the law in pursuit of the law enforcement, the message is one of capricious and abusive power.”

He said that when police force is unresponsive to the rule of law, the “destruction of public trust is profoundly damaging,” adding that when “the perception that police abuses and humiliations specific communities is tolerated based on economic, geographic, ethnic, religious or other distinctions”, it will “certainly exacerbate tensions and may lead to serious violence.”