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CAT (2014) Ali Aarrass v Morocco, No. 477/2011, 19 May 2014
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 18, 2017
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CTI and APT (2017) UNCAT Implementation Tool 2/2017: Safeguards in the first hours of police detention
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Mar 23, 2018
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APT & PRI (2015) Video recording in police custody: Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment
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- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 12, 2018
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Kozma & Rachlew (2018) Combating Torture During Police Custody and Pre-Trial Detention
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- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Apr 25, 2018
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UN Human Rights Council (2016) Torture and CIDT: Safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention
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- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Council
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- May 4, 2018
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CPT (1992) Police custody
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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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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- May 4, 2018
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CPT (2002) Developments concerning CPT standards in respect of police custody
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- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- May 4, 2018
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CPT (2017) Police oversight mechanisms in the Council of Europe Member states
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- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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APT (2018) Towards the Effective Protection of LGBTI Persons Deprived of Liberty: A Monitoring Guide
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- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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APT (2019) Access to a lawyer during the first hours of custody in Mexico: A Situation Analysis
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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ACmHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democractic Republic
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- African Union (AU): Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
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- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 9, 2019
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BIM (2018) Die ersten 48 Stunden: Beschuldigtenrechte im polizeilichen Ermittlungsverfahren
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jun 28, 2019
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Volksanwaltschaft - (2019) Präventive Menschenrechtskontrolle 2018
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention: Social welfare institutions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
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- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Jul 17, 2019
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Fair Trials (2015) Using EU Law in Criminal Practice
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- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2020
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CAT (2019) E.L.G. v Spain, No. 818/2017, 26 November 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2020) Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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UNODC (1994) Human Rights and Pre-trial Detention. A Handbook of International Standards relating to Pre-trial Detention
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- Theme
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 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
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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Kosovo - NPM (2020) Annual Report 2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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WGAD (2002) Country Visit Report: Bahrain, E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2003) Country Visit Report: Argentina, E/CN.4/2004/3/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- 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
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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: 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 (2006) Country Visit Report: Ecuador, A/HRC/4/40/Add.2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- 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
- Source
- 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: 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
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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CRC (2019) General Comment No. 24 (replacing General Comment No. 10) on Children's Rights in the Child Justice System, CRC/C/GC/24
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Shukurillo Osmonov v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2710/2015, 10 March 2020
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- Theme
- 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) Evgeny Bryukhanov v Russian Federation, No. 2367/2014, 12 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Zhanysbek Khalmamato v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2384/2014, 13 March 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- 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
- Nov 22, 2020
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