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\fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 IN THE HIGH COURT OF FIJI
\par AT SUVA
\par CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 024 OF 2004
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\par Hearing:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 22nd October 2004
\par Ruling:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 25th October 2004
\par 
\par Counsel:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 Mr. W. Kuruisaqila for State
\par Accused in Person
\par 
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\par The Applicant makes a further bail application pending trial.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
His previous applications (on the 23rd of August and 13th of September 2004) were refused on the basis that he is unlikely to surrender to custody because he has ten previous convictions for escaping from lawful custody.}{
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He now makes this application on the sole ground that the conditions of his custody are inhumane and degrading and a breach of section 25 of the Constitution.
\par 
\par In }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 Senijieli Boila and Pita Nainoka}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  HAC0032.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
2004, I found that the conditions of the cells in the Awaiting Trial Block at Korovou Prison to be inhumane and degrading.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
Where an inmate is held in any of the cells visited by me on the 5th of October 2004, I have no option but to grant bail, because the right under section 25 of the Constitution is an absolute, unqualified and non-derogable right.
\par 
\par In this case the Applicant was held in such a cell since the 19th of July 2004.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
On the 5th of October, the High Court judges of the criminal jurisdiction of the High Court, visited the Korovou Prison.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
On the 8th of October 2004, the Applicant was moved to a dormitory.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
The conditions of the dormitory appear to be far superior to the remand cells and appear to comply with the UN Minimum Standard Rules, on the information I have been given.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 The Human Rights Commission in }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 Senijieli Boila and Pita Nainoka}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
 (supra) agreed that bail could be refused in that case, because of the high risk of absconding by both Applicants on the condition that both Applicants were remanded in the dormitory until trial.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 That might have been the position in this case.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
However, on the 19th of October 2004, the Applicant appeared in court for further hearing of this application and said that he has now been moved to the main cell block where the conditions are worse than in the Awaiting Trial Block.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 Further, he states that he is in this new cell because he with others went on hunger strike to protest the prison conditions.

\par 
\par I make no comment about the hunger strike.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 However I do not have any confidence that the Applicant will be ho
used in the dormitory until trial.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 Indeed the Officer-in-Charge of the Prison, who gave evidence in }{
\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 Senijieli Boila and Pita Nainoka}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 
 confirmed that the Applicant has been moved out of the dormitory and into a cell in the Main Cell Block.
\par 
\par I consider as Winter J did in }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 State v. Leone Vakarusaqoli, Tawake Cakacaka and Kelemedi Dreu}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878  HAC}{
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 2004, that the Applicant has had to endure enough whilst in remand.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 I consider that the conditions in which he has been held since July 2004 to be in breach of section 25 of the Constitution.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16458878  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11557417\charrsid16458878 There being no prospect of a change to humane accommodation I have no option but to grant bail on conditions.
\par 
\par The conditions are that he must provide one surety as the sum of $500, he must provide his own recognisance of $500, he must 
not speak to or approach any of the prosecution witnesses in the case, he must report on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Valelevu Police Station between 6am and 6pm and must attend court for trial on the 10th of January 2005.
\par 
\par Bail is granted on these terms.
\par 
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\par At Suva
\par 25th October 2004
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