Sentences with phrase «detaining people indefinitely»

[2] The law gives the executive - in practice the Interior Ministry - extensive powers to suspend basic rights by prohibiting demonstrations and detaining people indefinitely without charge.

Jonathan Clark, the Bishop of Croydon who is backing the drive, said: «Detaining people indefinitely in prison - like conditions without judicial oversight is unjust, ineffective and inhumane.That's why Citizens UK are calling on people of goodwill across the country to join them in taking this issue to their parliamentary candidates.

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Neither do we convict people without trial on the basis of hearsay evidence, or indefinitely detain them without having committed a crime, or write legislation without being able to define the thing it is we are outlawing.

We have released a list of demands and among them is the release of torture, trafficking, gender - based violence victims among other vulnerable people that continue not only to be detained indefinitely, but also deported to the situations they escaped in the first place, I would like to inform you that we will be holding a sit - in to protest the specific point of detaining torture victims.»

Unfortunately, according to criminal lawyers Michelle Swift and Jonathan Hunyor, people are rarely released unconditionally, and the lack of appropriate facilities in the NT to house people on custodial supervision orders often sees people with cognitive disabilities indefinitely detained.

Indeed, the Committee didn't just criticise indefinite detention, it unequivocally called for an end to the practice of indefinitely detaining people after finding them unfit to be tried.