The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has come out strongly against Chief Justice Ian Chang’s recent dismissal of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ (DPP) advice to charge Commissioner of Police Henry Greene with rape calling the ruling “profoundly disturbing.”
“It is profoundly disturbing to the GHRA that an opportunity for a meaningful test of this country’s commitment to both the protection of females from sexual offences and the principle that no one is above the law, should be short-circuited by such specious reasoning,” the organization said in a statement. It said that Justice Chang’s platitudes about ‘consent’ in dismissing the advice as ‘irrational,’ “demonstrate that the criminal justice establishment is far behind the general public in its understanding of sexual offences.”
The GHRA
