Sentences with phrase «arbitrary arrest»

You have the right to be free from arbitrary arrest and / or detention.

Maundy Thursday's House of Lords debate was on Syria, in which David Alton spoke spoke: «there have been widespread reports of arbitrary arrests, threats of violence and looting of civilian property by the Free Syrian Army — a group the United Kingdom Government have previously told us that they support.»

Osinbajo, who said the current administration did not believe in arbitrary arrests, explained that the agencies of government were being empowered to do their jobs without undue interference.

Zeid Raad Al Hussein condemned April's church bombings, but told a news conference in Geneva that the «state of emergency, the massive number of detentions, reports of torture and continued arbitrary arrests — all of this we believe facilitates radicalisation in prisons», according to Reuters news agency.

The Police unit incharge of anti-crime known as SARS (special anti-robbery squad) has become notorious for arbitrary arrests and false indictments of innocent citizens for monetary benefits.

In addition, their tolerance of Islamic militants, their implementation of harsh criminal punishments, and their seemingly arbitrary arrests, incarceration and torture of Afghani citizens earned them the disapprobation of most of the world's governments.

These and other provisions prohibiting arbitrary arrest and detention, the infliction of torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment, are echoed in the European Convention on Human Rights and form part of our domestic law by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998.

More specifically, Chapter 39 affirms the right not to suffer arbitrary arrest, detention or ill - treatment without legal authority.

On Monday, the State Department issued its strongest travel warning against North Korea in 18 years, noting «the risk of arbitrary arrest and detention of U.S. citizens in North Korea.»

The rights set forth are primarily civil and political and include the rights to life, liberty, security, protection against torture and arbitrary arrest, equal protection of the law, freedom of movement, participation in government, religious freedom, freedom of assembly and association, and ownership of property.

Such violations include torture; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; and arbitrary arrest or imprisonment.

Some governments have resorted to terrorist tactics — arbitrary arrest, indefinite imprisonment, torture, and execution — in order to create a climate of fear and so force submission to their rule.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

It said that election boycott «is the only legitimate tool left in the hands of oppressed people to register their displeasure with the ongoing genocide, arbitrary arrests and torture across Biafraland.»

On liberty: Chapters 39 is most famous in protecting liberty from arbitrary arrest and related prejudice «save by the law of the land».

Independent LGBTI rights advocates with whom the Blade has previously spoken have said they continue to face harassment, arbitrary arrests and restrictions on their travel outside of the country if they publicly criticize the Cuban government or Mariela Castro.

Furthermore, the situation in Hebron «s H2 zone, where Palestinians survive (their existence can not be described as a «living») under constant threat of arbitrary arrests and persecution is unacceptable from any state claiming to be democratic.

«Council reaffirms the strong condemnation by the AU of all act of violence, committed by whomsoever, as well as of human rights abuses, including killings, extra-judicial executions, violations of the physical integrity of persons, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and / or degrading treatment, and arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, violations of the freedom of the press and freedom of expression and the prevalence of impunity,» the AU said.

The NASUWT is deeply concerned by reports that the arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of teachers and students is continuing in Bahrain and that they are being expelled from their studies and jobs without justification.

«What the spate of killings, arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions and political intimidations deployed by the controllers of the levers of power in Nigeria has done is to reinforce the message of IPOB that total dismemberment of Nigeria along ethnic lines and value system is the only solution going forward.

violations are torture, arbitrary arrests, and various restrictions of freedoms of religion, of speech and press, of free association and assembly.

Freedom of speech, press, assembly, association and religion are all restricted and arbitrary arrests and detention without charge or trial remain common.

Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.»

Torture Archipelago: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria's Underground Prisons, © 2012 by Human Rights Watch.

Arbitrary arrests are serious because they result in people being handcuffed, transported to the police station in custody, detention in a jail cell while awaiting breath testing, automatic license suspensions, and the requirement to give breath samples.

Arbitrary arrests may occur where:

The consequences have been wrenching, including torture, disappearance, arbitrary arrest, unfair trials and discrimination.

Three Hamas lawmakers among 23 men arrested by Israel, called «arbitrary arrests» by Hamas movement, Reuters