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CAT (2019) Ali Aarrass v Morocco, No. 817/2017, 25 November 2019
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Dec 14, 2021
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CCPR (2007) General Comment General Comment No. 32, 23 August 2007
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- 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
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- General Comment
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Jean Emmanuel Kandem Foumbi v Cameroon, No. 2325/2013, 28 October 2014
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Vasily Yuzepchuk v Belarus, No. 1906/2009, 24 October 2014
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Oleg Grishkovtsov v Belarus, No. 2013/2010, 1 April 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
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) ChhedulalTharu and others v Nepal, No. 2038/2011, 3 July 2015
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) G.C.A.A. v Uruguay, No. 2358/2014, 2 November 2015
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Dzhakishev Mukhtar v Kazakhstan, No. 2304/2013, 6 November 2015
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) John-Jacques Lumbala Tshidika v Democratic Republic of the Congo, No. 2214/2012, 5 November 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 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 modified
- Sep 13, 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 modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2016) Vladimir Vasilievich Neporozhnev v the Russian Federation, No. 1941/2010, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2016) C.L.C.D. et al. v Colombia, No. 2399/2014, 30 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) S. Sh. v Kazakhstan, No. 2842/2016, 28 March 2017
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2016) Valentina Kashtanova and Gulnara Slukina v Uzbekistan, No. 2106/2011, 28 October 2016
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Anton Batanov v the Russian Federation, N0. 2532/2015, 28 July 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Gennady Yakovitsky and AleksandraYakovitskaya v Belarus, No. 2789/2016, 12 March 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Hom Bahadur Bagale v Nepal, No. 2777/2016, 2 November 2020
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- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Bakhadyr Dzhuraev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2160/2012, 29 October 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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SPT (2016) Policy of the SPT on reprisals in relation to its visiting mandate, CAT/OP/6/Rev.1
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date modified
- Sep 6, 2021
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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UNSRT (2007) Follow-up Report, A/HRC/4/33/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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 modified
- Jan 5, 2021
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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
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- Legal instrument
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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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 modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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UNGA (2015) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules)
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Resolution
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 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 modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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