It should further guarantee the right of persons in police custody to have access to a lawyer during the initial hours of detention.

(c) The new draft federal code of criminal procedure on the rights of persons detained in police custody that prohibits incommunicado detention (mise au secret)

The United States intended to organize a meeting with the independent expert on the question of American policy on persons detained in Afghanistan.

After the state of emergency had been lifted in April 2005, his Government had released all persons detained under the public security act.

Detained persons could be visited by their relatives as well as by the ICRC, wherever they might be held, in accordance with the ICRC standard operating procedures.

D. Treatment of detainees . 397 405 77

1. Rights of detainees . 106 111 32

D. Treatment of detainees . 567 625 112

E. The situation of detainees

D. Treatment of detainees . 259 280 52

captured or detained

Persons detained under suspicion of engaging in or planning terrorist acts may not be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Rights of detained children

trial of the political detainees in Tiraspol

(b) Other information concerning detainees . 603 625 121

E. The situation of detainees . 68 71 19

2. Other information concerning detainees ..... 275 284 54

(i) To allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to carry out its humanitarian activities for people in need, in particular by granting immediate access to persons detained and by providing the necessary information on persons unaccounted for in connection with recent events

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

B'tselem, the Israeli information centre for human rights in the Occupied Territories

Access to detained staff

(b) Religious rights of persons in detention

(b) Other information concerning detainees

1. Measures concerning the release of detainees 259 274 52

2. Other information concerning detainees

The State party should take steps to further reduce the backlog, while guaranteeing access to justice to all, and ensure that those persons remanded in custody for trial are brought to trial as speedily as possible.

Despite the release of some detainees, their number continues to grow.

(15) The Committee notes with concern that bail is not allowed under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 for persons arrested or held in custody for the sale of drugs, especially where they have already been convicted of any drug offence.

Although some persons directly involved in the illicit treatment of these detainees have been prosecuted as required by the Geneva Conventions, their actions have undercut years of efforts to establish effective international safeguards on the treatment of wartime detainees.

Rights of detained children 43 15

Based on its review of the documents submitted, including documents and clarifications received in response to procedural orders, the Panel concluded that the issues presented by the claims in this instalment had been adequately developed and that oral proceedings were not required.

Functional protection of detained staff

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It also creates among the detainees the perception of partiality.

(b) Human rights of detained juveniles

1. Measures concerning the release of detainees

While noting that persons held in detention in Bangladesh were often subjected to mistreatment by police personnel, the Board expressed its view that this was not an abuse that was sanctioned by the Bangladeshi authorities.

The experts regret that the Government has failed to respond to many of their appeals, and that it has provided virtually no information on the fate or location of people detained in unknown locations.

It creates a lot of suffering for the detainees who are ill, and even for the healthy detainees who share cells with the sick ones.

Bearing in mind statistics which show that persons held awaiting trial include an excessively high number of non nationals and persons belonging to the groups referred to in the last paragraph of the preamble, States parties should ensure

In particular, the experts take this opportunity to urge the Royal Nepalese Army to cooperate with the courts and the National Human Rights Commission in providing information about the conditions and whereabouts of those held in its custody.

Many of those taken hostage suffered terrible deaths.

It also creates among the detainees the perception of partiality.

The detention registers are often not up to date.

These detainees are identified in Annex 3.