Article 17 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference in his privacy, family or home… United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Zimbabwe is still not a State Party to this Convention. Article 1 1. For the purposes of this Convention the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or any other person acting in an official capacity. Article 2 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. Constitution of Zimbabwe Section 15 A person may only be deprived of his liberty in connection with a criminal offence upon reasonable suspicion of him having committed the offence. Section 15 A person may not be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other such treatment. Section 17 … A person may only be subjected to the search of his person or his property in connection with a criminal offence where there are reasonable grounds for believing that the search or entry into the premises is reasonably necessary for the investigation or detection of a criminal offence.