(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 welcomed the fact that the period of deportation detention 28 days was very short.

On 26 October 2004, the Prosecutor extended Mr. Marynich's period of detention in custody to seven months.

Thus, it criminalizes acts of torture, although it refers to a specific period of time, namely the arrest and detention stage.

(k) At the existence of an additional 10 hour administrative detention period for interrogation before the maximum 48 hour period within which a detainee must be brought before a judge begins

Article 38 of the Constitution of Angola provides Any citizen subjected to preventive detention shall be taken before a competent judge to legalize the detention and be tried within the period provided for by law or released.

There were also allegations that Ms. Dualeh was sexually abused and mistreated by prison authorities and police officers during her period of detention.

6.5 As regards the alleged violation of article 9, paragraph 4, the Committee recalls that the author had no access to counsel during his incommunicado detention, which prevented him from challenging the lawfulness of his detention during that period.

(k) Take the necessary measures to abolish the 10 hour administrative detention period for interrogation prior to the 48 hour period within which a suspect must be brought before a judge

Even assuming that his arrest was lawful, his continued detention for a period of 40 days was neither reasonable nor necessary in the circumstances of his case.

(c) Consider deprivation of liberty only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest possible period of time, limit by law the length of pre trial detention and ensure that the lawfulness of this detention is reviewed by a judge without delay and regularly

It also restricts the use of pre trial detention, requiring it to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances and for as short a period of time as possible.

Lastly, he welcomed the provision on making videos of police interrogations during the 36 hour incommunicado detention period under the Dangerous Drugs Act and the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

The Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Administrative Offences set out the rules for detention a brief period of detention was possible before or after the bringing of charges if deemed necessary to prevent the commission of a criminal act or to prevent escape or the destruction of evidence.

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The complainant has not shown how he would be in danger of such politically motivated persecution as would render him particularly vulnerable to torture during a possible period of 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.

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.

5.6 As to the author's uncontested claim that he did not have access to a lawyer during his initial period of detention, and that during both periods of detention, he was not informed of his right to legal assistance, the Committee finds a violation of article 14, paragraph 3 (d), of the Covenant.

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

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

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.

In addition to the 25 accused whose trials were completed in this period, 25 detainees in the United Nations Detention Facility in Arusha were involved in nine trials.

The conditions of detention and the ill treatment suffered during the second detention period amounted to violations of articles 7 and 10, paragraph 1, while the fact that he was initially kept with a group of murder convicts at the BMM headquarters, upon his rearrest on 9 June 1985, violated article 10, paragraph 2 (a).

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.

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(e) The date and time of admission to the place of detention and the authority responsible for the place of detention

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

Throughout the reporting period, United Nations personnel deployed globally in a broad range of field operations continued to be subjected to threats such as hostage taking, physical assault, robbery, theft, harassment and detention.

Conditions of detention continued to be appalling.

Complaints regarding detention of individuals are filed

Baseless detention of humanitarian workers is unacceptable.

The Committee noted Israel's frequent use of administrative detention entailing restrictions on access to counsel and to disclosure of reasons for detention.

(i) Abolish the use of ungazetted or unauthorized places of detention or safe houses , and immediately provide information about all places of detention

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The mere fact that the complainant came back more than a year later to what had allegedly occurred at the beginning of the detention period contributed a different assessment being made in March 2003.