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UNGA (2012) Resoultion: Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in the Criminal Justice System
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
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- United Nations: General Assembly
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- Legal instrument
- Resolution
- Date added
- Feb 6, 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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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Detention: Detention - general
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- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
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- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2018
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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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- 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
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 5, 2019
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CAT (2019) Hany Khater v Morocco, No. 782/2016, 22 November 2019
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- 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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CCPR (2019) Yury Orkin v Russian Federation, No. 2410/2014, 24 July 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Aïcha Habouchi v Algeria, No. 2819/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Malika Bendjael and Merouane Bendjael v Algeria, No. 2893/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Evgeny Bryukhanov v Russian Federation, No. 2367/2014, 12 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Viktor Taran v Ukraine, No. 2368/2014, 12 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2020) M.Z. v Uzbekistan, No. 2689/2015, 13 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Evgeny Osincev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2313/2013, 15 March 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Andrei Sannikov v Belarus, No. 2212/2012, 6 April 2018
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- 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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Sarita Devi Sharma et al. v Nepal, No. 2364/2014, 6 April 2018
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Annadurdy Khadzhiyev et al. v Turkmenistan, No. 2252/2013, 6 April 2018
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Ozoda Yakubova v Uzbekistan, No. 2577/2015, 6 April 2018
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Ahmed Khaleel v the Maldives, No. 2785/2016, 27 July 2018
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Dec 9, 2020
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CCPR (2017) D.S. v the Russian Federation, No. 2705/2015, 14 July 2017
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2016) Roy Manojkumar Samathanam v Sri Lanka, No. 2412/2014, 28 October 2016
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2017) Sirozhiddin Allaberdiev v Uzbekistan, No. 2555/2015, 21 March 2017
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 17, 2020
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CCPR (2016) Azimjan Askarov v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2231/2012, 31 March 2016
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2016) Fillip Maksimovich Polskikh v the Russian Federation, No. 2099/2011, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Pavel Selyun v Belarus, No. 2289/2013, 6 November 2015
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Andrei Burdyko v Belarus, No. 2017/2010, 15 July 2015
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Oleg Grishkovtsov v Belarus, No. 2013/2010, 1 April 2015
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Boughera Kroumi v Algeria, No. 2083/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Aïcha Dehimi and Noura Ayache v Algeria, No. 2086/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Kamela Allioua and Fatima Zohra Kerouane v Algeria, No. 2132/2012, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Halima Louddi v Algeria, No. 2117/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Tahar Ammari v Algeria, No. 2098/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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