AUGUST 2017
ANNEXURE 3. 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
Is whereby a male person has sexual intercourse or anal
INDECENT
SEXUAL intercourse with female person without the consent of the
ASSAULT
latter
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.
ASSAULT
a) FALANGA
WHIPPING)
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
(FOOT 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.
b) SUBMERSION/SUFFOC A form of assault whereby water is forced into the victim’s
ATION
(WATER breathing passages so as to simulate drowning.
BOARDING)
c) BEATING
Is any form of physical assault including hitting of a person
with or without an object such as a stick, belt, whip, barbed
d) OTHER ASSAULT
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.)
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