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    "id": 313428,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT the Bill be amended by inserting the following new Clause immediately after Clause 269- Prohibition 269A. (1) A member of the Defence Forces of torture shall not subject any person to torture, cruel, or cruel inhuman or degrading treatment. treatment (2) A member of the Defence Forces who subjects a person to torture commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten million shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty five years or both. (3) A member of the Defence Forces who subjects a person to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five million shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years or both. (4) In this section— “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” means a deliberate and aggravated treatment or punishment not amounting to torture, inflicted by a person in authority or the agent of the person in authority against a person under his or her custody, causing suffering, gross humiliation or debasement to the person; \"torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for the purpose of― (i) obtaining information or a confession from the person or from a third person; (ii) punishing the person for an act which that person or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed; (iii) intimidating or coercing that person or a third person; or (iv) for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity."
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