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UNSRT (2017) Report to the GA, A/72/178
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- 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
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- English
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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CCPR (2017) Amarasinghe Arachchige Simon Amarasinghe v Sri Lanka, No. 2209/2012, 13 July 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) Olga Kozulina v Belarus, No. 1773/2008, 21 October 2014
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) Hadhoum Hmeed Mohamed v Libya, No. 2046/2011, 17 October 2014
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2004) Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police. Expanded Pcoket Book on Human Rights for the Police
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CCPR (2006) Concluding Observations: United States, CCPR/C/USA/CO/3/Rev.1
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CCPR (2015) Misilin Nona Guneththige and Piyawathie Guneththige v Sri Lanka, No. 2087/2011, 30 March 2015
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Transfers
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2015) Yuba Kumari Katwal v Nepal, No.2000/2010, 1 April 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) John Njie Monika v Cameroon, No. 1965/2010, 21 October 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2020) Sharobodin Yuldashev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2405/2014, 29 October 2020
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2020) V.I. v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2451/2014, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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UNSRT (2006) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Interrogations
- Detention: Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Sudan/Darfur, A/HRC/5/6
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Sudan/Darfur (Final Report), A/HRC/6/19
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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CCPR (2015) Gorka-Joseba Lupiañez Mintegi v Spain, No. 2657/2015, 21 March 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Chernev v Russian Federation, No. 2322/2013, 15 March 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2019) Ilya Petrovets v Belarus, No. 2333/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2018) Maya Abromchik v Belarus, No. 2228/2012, 20 March 2018
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2018) Andrei Sannikov v Belarus, No. 2212/2012, 6 April 2018
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2018) R. E. v the Russian Federation, No. 2249/2013, 19 July 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2015) M.T. v Uzbekistan, No. 2234/2013, 23 July 2015
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2020) Hom Bahadur Bagale v Nepal, No. 2777/2016, 2 November 2020
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2020) Kazybek Usekeev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 3000/2017, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2020) Oleg Boyarkin and T. P. v Kyrgyzstan, 2432/2014, 30 October 2020
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (1997) Human Rights and Law Enforcement. A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CCPR (2019) Aydos Sadykov v Kazakhstan, No. 2431/2014, 6 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2016) F.J. et al. v Australia, No. 2233/2013, 22 March 2016
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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