The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) is a body of independent human rights experts that investigate cases of arbitrary arrest and detention. Arbitrary...
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Arbitrary arrest and detention is the arrest and detention of an individual in a case in which there is no likelihood or evidence that they committed a...
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partnered with the UN and Thomson Reuters to create the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Database. The online database includes over 1,000 legal decisions...
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Political prisoners in the United States (category Imprisonment and detention)
original on September 19, 2020. "Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention E/CN.4/1994/27". United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. December...
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the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Sathkumara. In May 2020, the Working Group determined that his detention was arbitrary and violated...
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Paul Rusesabagina (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
people. On 20 September 2021, he was convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention rendered...
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Mustafa al-Hawsawi (category Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp)
torture. On January 23, 2015, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention held that al-Hawsawi's ongoing detention in Guantánamo Bay was arbitrary, and in...
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared Arroyo's hospital detention arbitrary and violative of the international law on human rights...
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Mark Swidan (section Detention and sentence)
Guangdong. on April 14, 2023, the Guangdong court upheld the sentence. The U.S. government and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered...
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United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNGAD) opinion was made (No. 53/2014), stating that his detention was arbitrary and his right to...
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conditions of detention improved. This was attributed to the introduction of crucial reforms. In October 2001, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited...
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and the Group of Rio. In 1993, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Alvarez Machaín's imprisonment was arbitrary, because...
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New York: Cornell Law School. "About arbitrary detention". United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. United Nations. Retrieved 2025-02-02...
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"classified information" on Revolutionary Guard missile sites. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated that "Mr. Sharmahd is being deprived of his liberty...
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Rights Council, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (20 October 2016). "Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its seventy-fifth...
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by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention" (PDF). ohchr.org. at para 20-29: Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. 12 May 2022.{{cite...
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allegations that Cornelius's detention is arbitrary and violates international law, as ruled by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2022. Critics argue...
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In 2007, the OHCHR Working Group on Arbitrary Detention expressed the opinion that the detention of Al Rashid is based solely on his political activities...
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years in jail. His imprisonment was held to be arbitrary by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2000. This time, he spent 415 days in solitary...
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2014. He currently serves as a member of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Prior to his appointment as Chief Justice, Mumba Malila...
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Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the issue. One of the issues the group has focused on is the determination whether a detention is arbitrary or...
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Alexei Gorinov (section Opinions on the sentence)
January 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2023. "Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its ninety-fifth session, 14 – 18 November 2022" (PDF)...
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United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention formally requested the Iranian Government to provide detailed information about his detention but did not...
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) working group on arbitrary detention. She is married to Ali and the mother of two daughters, Gulsanga...
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Cambodia, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, U.N. Doc. A/HRC/4/40/Add.1 at 7 (2006)". United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. 2006. Retrieved...
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original on 2021-03-08. "Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-eighth...
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submission to the U.N. working group on arbitrary detention. Sowore has been jailed ever since, aside from one overnight release on bail in early December...
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Peter Biar Ajak (section Detention)
legitimate human rights work. On June 12, 2019, Genser filed a petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention requesting that the body...
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Kai Li (businessman) (section Detention)
the Levinson Act as did the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention which declared Li's detention to be arbitrary. In November 2024, Li was released...
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November 2022, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations deemed the detention and arrest of Thach to have been arbitrary. "Trần Đức Thạch...
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