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(a) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Subject matter Arbitrary detention in psychiatric institution

There is no question of any arbitrary detention'.

Substantive issues Arbitrary detention right to take proceedings before court to challenge lawfulness of detention

Arbitrary and prolonged pre trial detention remains frequent throughout Afghanistan.

(k) About continued reports of cases of arbitrary arrest and detention

The detention of Mr. Walid Lamine Tahar Samaali is not arbitrary.

Welcoming the visit of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to Belarus,

(e) The cases of summary or arbitrary execution, disappearance, torture, harassment, unlawful arrest, widespread persecution and arbitrary detention for long periods

He refers to the criteria under which the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determines whether a deprivation of liberty is arbitrary.

The independent expert was informed of the persistence of torture and arbitrary detention, particularly in military installations or illegal detention centres.

Nevertheless, national security personnel continued to assert arbitrary powers of arrest and detention.

The PTA facilitates arbitrary arrest, lengthy detention of suspects without trial and attendant abuses.

(c) Reports of arbitrary arrest and detention, including of eyewitnesses to the events in Andijan

The Committee concludes that the author's detention was arbitrary, in violation of article 9, paragraph 1.

The cases summarized hereafter have been reported to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as follows.

Subject matter Right to self determination of former British Southern Cameroon Arbitrary detention of separatist leader Conditions of detention Denial of right to vote in elections

(d) The cases of torture and ill treatment of civilians, extrajudicial summary or arbitrary execution, arbitrary arrest, detention without trial and corporal punishment in its cruellest forms

The speaker also reported on the arbitrary detention of academics advocating the teaching of Tamazigh language and history.

(i) Consider amending its legislation and practice relating to pre trial detention, so that such detention is imposed only as an exceptional measure, taking into account the recommendations on alternatives to pre trial detention adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in December 2003

(b) About recent cases of arbitrary arrest and detention and of summary trials in some areas of the country

The source alleges that the detention of Ms. Qiu is arbitrary because it is devoid of a legal basis.

The source adds that the detention of these persons is arbitrary because it is devoid of any legal basis.

The Working Group therefore considers that, as from 5 December 2002, Mr. Haidera's continued detention without any legal basis, which under international standards a detention order may constitute, is arbitrary.

The Human Rights Unit of UNAMA has continued to monitor the situation of women in detention and has advocated for the release of women in cases of arbitrary or illegal detention.

(b) To respond fully to the recommendations of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the Commission on Human Rights

Lastly, further details were needed on what was being done to prevent the widespread practice of arbitrary detention and torture.

(i) Precarious conditions of detention, frequent use of torture, arbitrary detentions, interrogations, and violations of human rights by the security organs

(b) To pay special attention, during states of emergency, to the exercise of those rights that ensure protection against arbitrary detention

(b) To pay special attention, during states of emergency, to the exercise of those rights that ensure protection against arbitrary detention

(b) To pay special attention, during states of emergency, to the exercise of those rights that ensure protection against arbitrary detention

In 2004, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the Commission on Human Rights visited Belarus at the invitation of the Government.

5.1 The first issue before the Committee is whether the author's detention from 31 May 1985 to 3 February 1986 was arbitrary.

(c) To ensure effective protection of the rights of persons deprived of liberty, as recommended by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Nevertheless, this report was accepted as sufficient grounds and the sole basis for ordering the defendant's detention, which the source considers arbitrary.

Cases of summary execution, prolonged pre trial detention, arbitrary arrest, disregard for due process, ill treatment, and rape continued to be reported.

The Working Group considers that maintaining a person in administrative detention once his release has been ordered by the court competent to exercise control over the legality of detention renders the deprivation of liberty arbitrary.

(d) The frequent Taliban practice of arbitrary arrest and detention and of summary trials, which have resulted in summary executions throughout the country

3.3 The author argues that his imprisonment without a fair trial amounts to arbitrary detention, in violation of article 9 of the Covenant.

The source concludes that the detention of Mr. Morales Hernández is arbitrary and calls upon the Working Group to declare it as such.