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CAT (2014) Sergei Kirsanov v Russian Federation, No. 478/2011, 14 May 2014
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Univ. of Essex HR Cerntre and PRI (2017) Essex Paper 3: Initial Guidance on the Interpretation and Implementation of the Nelson Mandela Rules
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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UNSRT (2018) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/37/50
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention (1999) Mission on Prisons and Conditions of Detention: Benin
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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- African Union (AU): Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
ICPR (2019) Towards A Health-Informed Approach To Penal Reform? Evidence From Ten Countries
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Language
- English
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- Academia
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Council of Europe (2020) COVID-19 RELATED STATEMENT BY THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL FOR PENOLOGICAL CO-OPERATION WORKING GROUP (PC-CP WG)
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Quarantine
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- English
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- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly
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- General Comment
Document
UNODC (2020) COVID-19 preparedness and responses in prisons
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Quarantine
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- English
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- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
ODIHR & APT (2020) Guidance - Monitoring places of Detention through the COVID-19 Pandemic
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Language
- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
ODIHR (2008) Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region: Challenges and Good Practices
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
Serbia - NPM (2020) Thematic Report: Application of CPT Principles Relating to the Treatment of Persons Deprived of Their Liberty in the Context of the Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) Pandemic
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Language
- English
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CCPR (2017) Cyrille Gervais Moutono Zogo v Cameroon, No. 2764/2016, 8 November 2017
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2018) Pavel Barkovsky v Belarus, No. 2247/2013, 13 July 2018
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) S.P. v the Russian Federation, No. 2152/2012, 27 October 2016
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) Roy Manojkumar Samathanam v Sri Lanka, No. 2412/2014, 28 October 2016
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- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) T.V. and A.G. v Uzbekistan, No. 2044/2011, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Mamatkarim Ernazarov v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2054/2011, 25 March 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2014) Olga Kozulina v Belarus, No. 1773/2008, 21 October 2014
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2014) Hadhoum Hmeed Mohamed v Libya, No. 2046/2011, 17 October 2014
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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CAT (2015) Déogratias Niyonzima v Burundi, No. 514/2012, 21 November 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) X. v Burundi, No. 553/2013, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2016) B. R. v Italy, No. 598/2014, 29 April 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2014) Rasim Bairamov v Kazakhstan, No. 497/2012, 14 May 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CPT (2011) Solitary confinement of prisoners
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Language
- English
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CPT (2017) Inspection of a prison medical service by a CPT doctor - Checklist
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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UNSRT (2003) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2004/56
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the GA, A/62/221
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document