DO CRIMINALS DESERVE TO BE ACCORDED HUMAN RIGHTS?

We are used to seeing images of accused persons being paraded almost naked before the press by the Nigeria police. Sometimes it is easy to notice swelling and bruises on their face. Some of these persons are accused of kidnapping, armed robbery, rape, murder and cultism.

Do they deserve to be accorded some dignity like their counterparts in more advanced countries?
Under the Nigerian criminal justice the constitutional right of an accused person is enshrined in Section 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 such rights include, the right to be informed promptly in the language
that he understands, the details and nature of the offence of the accused, the right to be given adequate time to prepare his defence, the right to defend himself in person or by legal practitioner of his own choice, the right to have an interpreter free of charge if he does not understand the language of the court, the right to have record of the proceeding kept an
d the right to have copies of this within seven days of the
conclusion of the case, the right to remain silent during the trial, the right not to be tried and convicted twice for the same offence, the right to be presumed innocent until he is proved guiltyand the right not to be charged for an unwritten offence. All
these rights aimed at ensuring that an accused person is not unjustly dealt with.