What is impunity? Impunity means exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss ". In the international law of human rights , it refers to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice and, as such, itself constitutes a denial of the victims' right to justice and redress . Impunity is especially common in countries that lack a tradition of the rule of law , suffer from corruption or that have entrenched systems of patronage , or where the judiciary is weak or members of the security forces are protected by special jurisdictions or immunities . This is a word used by a lot of people to express its disgust on the high handedness and oppressive actions of some government agencies and officials. It is a normal occurrence for state agencies to act with impunity on normal defenseless citizens as they have so much powers to do so but recently there has been a shift of those who are being oppressed. These days the masses stay b