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CCPR (2021), Mikalai Statkevich v Belarus, No. 2619/2015, 26 October 2021
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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CCPR (2021), D.V.K. v Kazakhstan, No. 2675/2015, 23 July 2021
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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CCPR (2007) General Comment General Comment No. 32, 23 August 2007
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Mar 21, 2021
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Nicaragua, A/HRC/4/40/Add.3
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Honduras, A/HRC/4/40/Add.4
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Transfers
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Canada, E/CN.4/2006/7/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2005) Country Visit Report: Belarus, E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.3
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Indonesia, E/CN.4/2000/4/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Peru, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1996) Country Visit Report: Nepal, E/CN.4/1997/4/Add.2
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1994) Country Visit Report: Viet Nam, E/CN.4/1995/31/Add.4
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Accountability: Complaints
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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CAT (2019) E.L.G. v Spain, No. 818/2017, 26 November 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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CAT (2019) Ali Aarrass v Morocco, No. 817/2017, 25 November 2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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CAT (2019) Hany Khater v Morocco, No. 782/2016, 22 November 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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UNGA (2010) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Oct 16, 2019
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CAT (2018) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 778/2016, 23 November 2018
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 5, 2019
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CAT (2015) Saidi Ntahiraja v Burundi, No. 575/2013, 3 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- May 3, 2018
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UNGA (1990) Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (Havana Rules)
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Apr 24, 2018
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CAT (2017) Damien Ndarisigaranye v Burundi, No. 493/2012, 10 November 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2018
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CAT (1995) B.M'B. v Tunisia, No. 14/1994, 5 May 1995
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Apr 5, 2018
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CAT (1998) E.O. Akhidenor et al v Canada, No. 67/1997, 17 Noveber 1998
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2018
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CAT (1999) Josu Arkauz Arana v France, No. 63/1997, 9 November 1999
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2018
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CAT (1999) Khaled Ben M’Barek v Tunisia, No. 60/1996, 10 November 1999
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2018
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CAT (2015) H.B. v Algeria, No. 494/2012, 6 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 8, 2018
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CAT (2015) E.N. v Burundi, No. 578/2013, 25 November 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 8, 2018
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UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (1990) Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Detention: Detention - general
- Source
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2018
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UNGA (1988) Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2018
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UNGA (2010) Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (Bangkok Rules)
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2018
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