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Many detainees in detention centres are being held while their case is still being investigated. They were arrested on the suspicion of theft, and some are held in these pre-trial facilities for almost a year, while police investigate the case, providing the assumption that the arrests were arbitrary and on suspicious grounds. [17]
The detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, remand prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. The length of detention of suspected terrorists , with the justification of taking an action that would aid counter-terrorism , varies according to country or situation, as well ...
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) is a body of independent human rights experts that investigate cases of arbitrary arrest and detention. Arbitrary arrest and detention is the imprisonment or detainment of an individual, by a State, without respect for due process. These actions may be in violation of international human rights law.
A United Nations expert voiced concern on Friday that tens of thousands of children were being detained arbitrarily in northeastern Syria based on their alleged ties to Islamic State and in ...
Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial.A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries [1] claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism or rebellion, to control illegal immigration, or to otherwise protect the ruling regime.
Australia considers the incarceration of a Chinese Australian writer who has been tried in Beijing for alleged espionage a case of arbitrary detention, the foreign minister said. Yang Hengjun ...
Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.The court ruled that the plenary power doctrine does not authorize the indefinite detention of immigrants under order of deportation whom no other country will accept.
More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide in the U.S. or abroad are living outside of immigration in the U.S., according to data ICE provided to Congress.