NATUC: Blindfolding lawyer 'violates international law'

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has con­demned what it de­scribes as an “au­thor­i­tar­i­an-like” in­ci­dent at Teteron Bar­racks, where an at­tor­ney was al­leged­ly blind­fold­ed be­fore be­ing al­lowed to con­sult with a client.

In a state­ment is­sued to­day, NATUC said it could not ig­nore the in­ci­dent, which it called “an in­jus­tice to all”.

It point­ed to in­ter­na­tion­al le­gal in­stru­ments in­clud­ing the UN Ba­sic Prin­ci­ples on the Role of Lawyers and the In­ter­na­tion­al Covenant on Civ­il and Po­lit­i­cal Rights, which guar­an­tee at­tor­neys and de­tainees the right to con­fi­den­tial and in­ter­fer­ence-free com­mu­ni­ca­tion.