It supports the process of making ACATs important actors in civil society, capable of raising public awareness and having an impact on the authorities in their country.

It helps to keep the network alive by encouraging exchanges, proposing regional or international training and joint intervention initiatives.

[6] This project, targeting 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, has been carried out jointly with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty since 2015.

It constitutes an attack on the presumption of innocence and is considered as abusive preventive detention when the rules governing it are not respected.

This practice contributes to prison overcrowding, affects the conditions of detention and has a socio-economic impact on the defendants and their families.

[18] The cases are followed up by referral lawyers, who provide legal support to ACAT members in the field, until the provisional or definitive release of those awaiting trial.