LCP4807 ASSIGNMENT 2 SEMESTER 1 2025 – DUE 29 APRIL 2025

LCP4807 ASSIGNMENT 2 SEMESTER 1 2025 – DUE 29 APRIL 2025 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS The Republic of Qwanza is a Southern African country with a constitution which is a replica of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) adopted in 2004. Qwanza has ratified the major UN human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (including the two optional protocols), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) including its optional Protocols. Qwanza has also ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; The Protocol Establishing the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. On 15 May 2022 a man was murdered near Bali village in the Republic of Qwanza. Mr Timothy Ibo was accused of committing the crime and brought to trial. He denied the offence. On 15 June 2023 the High Court in Qwanza convicted him of the murder and sentenced him to death, the only sentence available for the offence of murder under Qwanza law. According to Section 46 of the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act of Qwanza “a person who commits murder is liable to suffer death.” Mr Ibo claims that the death sentence as provided for in the Criminal and Other Offences Act is unconstitutional and violates several human rights as provided for in the