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Ivory Coast
Index
The Ivoirian penal code prohibited official violence
without
legitimate justification; nevertheless, suspects
(particularly
foreign Africans) were routinely subjected to rough
treatment when
detained or arrested by the National Gendarmerie or
National
Security Police. The penal code also allowed the police or
investigative magistrates to conduct home searches without
warrants
if they had reason to believe that evidence of a crime
would be
found. Although the Constitution and statutes prohibited
arbitrary
arrest and imprisonment, the penal code did permit public
prosecutors to detain suspects for up to forty-eight hours
without
charges. Magistrates could order longer detention of up to
four
months, provided that monthly reports were filed with the
Ministry
of Justice justifying continued detention. In the 1980s,
periodic
but short-lived anticrime campaigns resulted in massive
detentions.
The Ivoirian government abolished capital punishment for
political
crimes and had not employed it for criminal offenses since
independence.
Data as of November 1988
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