A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 90 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response detained or imprisoned except in places defined by laws organizing prisons. If a confession is proved to have been made by a person under any of the aforementioned forms of duress or coercion, it shall be considered invalid and futile.” And Article 57 provides that “Any assault on individual freedom or on the inviolability of the private life of citizens and any other public rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the law shall be considered a crime, whose criminal and civil lawsuit is not liable to prescription. The State shall grant a fair compensation to the victim of such an assault.” The Egyptian penal code criminalizes committing and ordering acts of torture in articles 126 and 282; and criminalizes unjustified detainment and penalties exceeding those decided by articles 127 and 280. In compliance with the constitutional provisions and with article 57 of the Constitution, criminal procedure law stipulates in its article 15 that the aforementioned crimes may not lapse by prescription. Article 203 of the same law stipulates that the court shall not rely on any confession made by a person under any form of duress or coercion. The preceding is in full harmony with the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and the Convention against Torture, and is confirmed by the precedents and the legal sentences by the Egyptian judiciary. Furthermore pursuant to the judicial principles on the scope of criminal liability, the assessment of the value of confession as an evidence is subject to the principle of “judicial discretion”. Consequently, the