ANNEXURE 1. DEFINITIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
TERM
DEFINITION
MURDER
Unlawful and intentional killing of another person
SEXUAL ASSAULT:
It is knowingly causing another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat.
A) RAPE
B) AGGRAVATED
SEXUAL ASSAULT
Is whereby a male person has sexual intercourse or anal intercourse with female person without the consent of the latter
INDECENT
ASSAULT
A) FALANGA (FOOT WHIPPING)
Is whereby a person including a female commits a sexual act involving the penetration of any part of the victim’s body, other
than a male person having sexual intercourse or anal intercourse with a female person, without the consent of the victim,
including active and passive oral sex and anal sex between two individuals of any gender.
Is whereby a person commits an assault upon another person intending to cause that other person bodily harm.
Is a form of corporal punishment whereby the soles of the feet are beaten with an object such as a cane, or rod, a piece of
wood, or a whip. The victim may be immobilized before the application of the beating by tying, securing the feet in leg irons,
locking the legs into an elevated position or hanging upside down.
A form of assault whereby water is forced into the victim’s breathing passages so as to simulate drowning.
B) SUBMERSION/SUFFOCATION
(WATER BOARDING)
C) BEATING
D) OTHER ASSAULT
Is any form of physical assault including hitting of a person with or without an object such as a stick, belt, whip, barbed wire,
log or any other object including bare hands. It also includes the kicking or head-butting of a person; and includes stabbing,
shooting and forced consumption (forcing a person or overeat or eat something poisonous or their own excreta.)
TORTURE
Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person by or instigation of
public official or other person acting in an official capacity for purposes of obtaining from the victim or a third person information
or a confession , punishing him/her for an act s/he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or
intimidating or coercing him/her or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind
THREAT
It is whereby a person threaten to commit a crime, including but not limited to murder, rape, aggravated indecent assault,
unlawful detention , theft, malicious damage to property thereby inspiring in the person on whom she/he communicates the