The Un Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice

ISBN-13: 9781108822428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 654 str.

Jared Genser

Opis

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body's 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

Recenzje

'… Genser performs a great service for practitioners here in his close reading and enumeration of findings of the 2010 UN Joint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in the Context of Countering Terrorism - with its critically important discussion of those 'circumstance (that) can elevate prolonged incommunicado detention into an act of torture or other mistreatment'.' Brian Phillips, Journal of Human Rights Practice

Spis treści

Foreword by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu; Part I. Background: 1. Overview of the working group; 2. Deliberations of the working group; Part II. Individual Case Procedure: 3. Process for taking a case to the working group; Part III. Case Jurisprudence: 4. Category I: no legal basis for detention; 5. Category II: violation of fundamental rights and freedoms; 6. Category III: violation of rights of due process; 7. Category IV: violation of rights of asylum seekers; 8. Category V: discrimination on protected grounds; 9. Detention not arbitrary; Part IV. Additional Case Studies: 10. Mohamed Nasheed v. The Maldives; 11. 'Balyoz' or Sledgehammer Cases v. Turkey; 12. Aung San Suu Kyi v. Myanmar; 13. Mukhtar Ablyazov v. France; 14. Yang Jianli v. China; Table of authorities; Appendices: required legal materials; Index.