(h) A system of regular visits to all places of detention (police custody, pre trial detention and post conviction imprisonment) should be put in place.

The detainees were being held in Jalpaiguru jail under judicial custody.

On 21 February 1990, he was taken away to Boossa detention camp, where he is still being detained.

D. Use of force and firearms against persons in custody or detention

D. Use of force and firearms against persons in custody or detention 55 57 12

Some detainees later alleged ill treatment in police custody.

The Ministry of Public Security also plans to organize training sessions addressing the Optional Protocol specifically in the first half of 2005.

(g) To treat all suspects and convicted or detained persons in accordance with relevant international law and to refrain from arbitrary detention in violation of international law

On 2 May 2000, the complainant was detained in immigration detention for purposes of removal.

Maximum security prison facilities for pre trial and post conviction detention have been established.

C. Deaths in custody

3. Deaths in custody

Measures taken to raise awareness within the population at large about the offences prohibited under the Optional Protocol

2. For the purposes of the present Protocol, deprivation of liberty means any form of detention or imprisonment or the placement of a person in a public or private custodial setting which that person is not permitted to leave at will by order of any judicial, administrative or other authority.

7. Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

7. Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

I may be held over for trial or something.

8. Encourages all States to ensure that persons convicted of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment have no subsequent involvement in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any person under arrest, detention, imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty

The Committee is also concerned that socio educative measures are not frequently applied and therefore, as a result, a large number of persons below age 18 are in detention, and at the very poor conditions of detention.

Rights of detained children

240. Disappeared persons were reported to have been confined in secret detention centres, such as Laayoune, Qal apos at M apos gouna, Agdz and Tazmamart.

The authorities detaining Zhao Yan have not allowed him to contact his family or a lawyer.

Moreover, the Government limited the visit to one day and explicitly excluded private interviews or visits with detainees.

The Committee remains particularly concerned about, inter alia, violations of the rights of children in detention centres, the remanding of children in adult prisons or police cells, long periods in custody, delays before trial, and the inadequacy of existing alternative measures to imprisonment.

The Committee remains particularly concerned about, inter alia, violations of the rights of children in detention centres, the remanding of children in adult prisons or police cells, long periods in custody, delays before trial, and the inadequacy of existing alternative measures to imprisonment.

He is detained at the Mahara Prison.

179. Act No. 26295 established the National Register of Detainees and Persons Sentenced to Custodial Sentences, the purpose of which is to secure the human rights of detainees and of persons sentenced to imprisonment.

form of detention, imprisonment or placement in

Some 75 per cent of the 103 detainees had been held longer than the statutory limit of 14 days and 23 claimed to have been tortured.

Rights of detained children 43 15

C. Deaths in custody 32 35 11

Prisons remain overcrowded, with more than 7,000 detainees occupying space for a maximum capacity of 3,750 inmates.

8. Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment or any other form of deprivation of liberty for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

11. Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment or any other form of deprivation of liberty for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

76. The American Convention on Human Rights uses not the term imprisonment ( prisión ), but the terms deprived of liberty ( privado de libertad ), detention ( detención ), arrest or imprisonment ( detención o encarcelamiento ), detained ( detenido o retenido ), and person deprived of his liberty ( persona privada de libertad ).

However, human rights observers have reported that almost 90 per cent of the inmates of Muyinga prison were in pretrial detention, among them an 80 year old man without a legal dossier held since September 1998 in connection with the events of 1993.

(18) The Committee is concerned at reports that police custody is frequently resorted to abusively, and that torture is frequently practised in such custody.

He is still under their custody, without having been brought to any court, being detained at the Prison of Colombo 12 (known as 4th floor Bureau).

Accordingly, in the light of the charges brought against the defendant and the length of time he spent in custody, his pretrial detention does not seem disproportionate.

It should be underscored that under the Swedish system it is absolutely prohibited to detain children under the age of 16 in a prison, remand centre or police cell.

These include provisions granting prompt access to a lawyer recording of interrogations and of the identities of those persons present allowing independent and timely medical examinations prohibiting incommunicado detention or detention in undisclosed locations and monitoring by independent persons or groups conducting prompt, regular visits that include private interviews.

Persons arrested or under police custody are given a written notice detailing their rights, such as the rights to be provided with a list of solicitors, to be supplied with food, and to seek medical treatment.

16. quot 1. Promptly after arrest and after each transfer from one place of detention or imprisonment to another, a detained or imprisoned person shall be entitled to notify or to require the competent authority to notify members of his family or other appropriate persons of his choice of his arrest, detention or imprisonment or of the transfer and of the place where he is kept in custody quot .

(f) To grant the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all persons detained under their authority, including those detained in relation to the situation in Darfur