The women, including al Duhayan, were denied calls, visits and access to lawyers.

In the Arab world, authoritarian governments have deprived people of political, civil, and intellectual freedoms for decades.

Indeed, his government s crackdown on dissent may well have cost Istanbul the 2020 Olympics.

The late Prime Minister's death has robbed Georgia of a visionary leader who was the driving force behind the economic reforms which are under way in that country.

These delegations expressed, however, reservations on the content of the proposed preambular paragraph, including, among others, objections to the references to the Declaration and to the words struggle and forcibly deprived .

Rulings by the Chair to limit speakers on provisional agenda item 56 in the current working paper and item 60 denied the right of Member States to speak on the issue.

The Government of Israel had hijacked the concept of security, applying it solely to Israelis and depriving the Palestinian people of all aspects of personal, political, legal, territorial, historical, cultural, economic and even human security.

After all, one of the reasons Chile s right hasn t won an election since 1990, when democracy was restored, has been its silence regarding Pinochet s crimes and financial misdeeds.

They are not entitled for a compensation, Radulova wrote, they are not being paid, they will not receive new houses in new modern villages. They stay to live in villages where they don't have electricity and where there are only few houses left.

Solomon Islands, among other countries, was actually denied the opportunity to debate the inclusion of certain items on the agenda, and feels that the United Nations must at least have a mechanism in place to provide for the full and equal participation of all Member States.

Though some of the changes simply involved administrative regulations, the Patriot Act s overall effect was to erode the great pillars of liberty, such as habeas corpus , the right to recourse to an independent court whenever the state deprives an individual of his freedom.

3.2 The Murcia provincial high court denied the author justice, in violation of article 14, paragraph 1, of the Covenant, by holding that the unjustified failure of counsel to appear at the hearing had prevented the court from learning of the causes and grounds for the opposition to and disagreement with the ruling of the court of first instance.

6.6 With respect to the violation of article 17 claimed by the author, on the grounds that she was deprived of the custody of her younger son, the Committee also notes that it is not competent to examine the facts and evidence in the case, and that the author has not demonstrated that their evaluation by the domestic courts was arbitrary or tantamount to a denial of justice.