Burkina Faso
Practice Relating to Rule 90. Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
Burkina Faso’s Disciplinary Regulations (1994) provides that soldiers are prohibited to submit the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, prisoners and civilians to “inhuman treatment or torture of any kind”.
The Regulations also provide: “Prisoners must be protected against any act of violence, insults and public curiosity.”