During 2004 the IBA and HRI have continued to keep a watching brief on anti terrorist laws and the use of indefinite detention.

The Reconciliation Court issued orders to keep the journalists in detention for a number of days, but they were then released instead on bail on 15 August with no indictment.

C. Children in detention

It wishes to receive statistical data, disaggregated by nationality and length of detention, relating to persons held under such detention, including in offshore detention centres.

Detention

In the detention cases, the victim has been found to be within the jurisdiction in relation to violations associated with detention, such as alleged unlawful detention or alleged ill treatment.

A new preventative detention regime that allows detention for up to 48 hours in a terrorism situation.

There is continued concern about the situation of women in detention and the issue of illegal detention.

What was the maximum length of time a person could be held in pre trial detention without being able to communicate with anyone outside the detention facility? The delegation had informed the Committee that when pre trial detention was extended, it became court detention rather than police detention.

The Working Group did indeed find that under the system in force in Belarus the decision to keep a person in detention or to extend the period of his or her detention is taken not by a judge, but by the public prosecutor, acting on proposals by the investigator, and in the absence of the person concerned or his or her lawyer.

Illegal detention

Preventative Detention

Arbitrary detention

Arbitrary detention

In detention, she started a hunger strike.

Subject matter Arbitrary detention in psychiatric institution

In response, UNHCR and its partners sought access to detention sites, reporting on conditions and exploring alternatives to detention.

If such an order was issued, the detainee was thereafter held in court detention as opposed to police detention.

(j) Improve conditions in places of detention, ensuring that they conform to international minimum standards, adopt necessary measures to reduce the pre trial detention period and continue to address overcrowding in places of detention

He was not, however, released from detention and continues to be detained at the Central Jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The reason for his continued detention is that under Pakistani migration laws, an alien in detention in Pakistan cannot be released from detention unless and until he has been issued travel documents.

Women who are under temporary detention and violate regulations of the detention center and thus are subject to punishment of isolated detention in a separate room will not be fettered like men.

(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. Pretrial detention

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E. Rights of suspects and those in detention

He was arrested and placed in preliminary detention.

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

So called enemy combatants remain in indefinite incommunicado detention without formal charges and are unable to challenge the basis of their detention.

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

Approximately 79 per cent of the overall cost for detention services relates to detention guards.

1. No one shall be held in secret detention.

His diet while in detention has been extremely poor.

Celebrating a dictator's detention

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After spending 102 days in detention, she was released on 23 September 2009 on 200,000 bail. She spent 33 days of her detention in solitary confinement.

Detention without trial is counterproductive in the fight against terrorism.

For approximately two months he was held in incommunicado detention.

(g) Establish an independent body with a mandate to visit and or supervise places of detention without prior notice, and allow impartial and NGOs to make visits to prisons and places where the authorities keep detainees

(j) At the poor conditions of detention and long pre trial detention periods of up to three years

However, they did not present an arrest warrant, detention order, or any other written document justifying the detention.

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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

Judicial supervision of the use of isolation in pre trial detention

(b) The separation of juveniles from adults in all detention facilities