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The ACT Human Rights Commissioner, Dr Helen Watchirs is heartened by the announcement that spit hoods will no longer be used by ACT Policing or by the AFP nationally.

Australia’s National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) bodies have decried the fact that the UN Subcommittee on the prevention of torture (SPT) was denied access to places of detention during its visit, resulting in the SPT suspending its visit.