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CCPR (2021) Émile Bisimwa Muhirhi v DRC, No. 2772/2016, 23 March 2021
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Fatima Rsiwi v Algeria, No. 2843/2016, 19 October 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Jean Emmanuel Kandem Foumbi v Cameroon, No. 2325/2013, 28 October 2014
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Bariza Zaier v Algeria, No. 2026/2011, 29 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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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) 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) Aïcha Dehimi and Noura Ayache v Algeria, No. 2086/2011, 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) 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 (2015) John-Jacques Lumbala Tshidika v Democratic Republic of the Congo, No. 2214/2012, 5 November 2015
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- Theme
- 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 added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2016) Mejdoub Chani v Algeria, No. 2297/2013, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Malika El Boathi v Algeria, No. 2259/2013, 17 March 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 17, 2020
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CCPR (2017) Lounis Khelifati v Algeria, No. 2267/2013, 28 July 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Arab Millis v Algeria, No. 2398/2014, 6 April 2018
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2020
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CCPR (2017) Abdelkader Boudjema v Algeria, No. 2283/2013, 30 October 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 7, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Rachid Braih v Algeria, No. 2924/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- 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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- 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
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Aïcha Habouchi v Algeria, No. 2819/2016, 27 March 2020
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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
- Nov 22, 2020
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CAT (2019) Ali Aarrass v Morocco, No. 817/2017, 25 November 2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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CPTA (2012) Report of the Promotion Mission to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 9, 2019
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IRCT (2017) Redress and Reparations for Torture Victims - Data in the fight against impunity
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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CAT (2017) Damien Ndarisigaranye v Burundi, No. 493/2012, 10 November 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2018
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CAT (1995) B.M'B. v Tunisia, No. 14/1994, 5 May 1995
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Apr 5, 2018
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CAT (1999) Khaled Ben M’Barek v Tunisia, No. 60/1996, 10 November 1999
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2018
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CAT (2015) H.B. v Algeria, No. 494/2012, 6 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 8, 2018
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CAT (2015) E.N. v Burundi, No. 578/2013, 25 November 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 8, 2018
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ACmHPR (2000) Malawi Africa Association et al v Mauritania, No. 54&61/91, 96&98/93, 164&/97 and 210/98, 11 May 2000.
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2017
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CAT (2017) Rached Jaïdane v Tunisia, No. 654/2015, 11 August 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Oct 25, 2017
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