Sentences with phrase «detaining people without»

No government could bring back slavery, or begin detaining people without trial.

The power is very broad and allows officials to detain people without reasonable suspicion, but it has some significant limitations, including that it can only be used to establish whether someone is a terrorist.

Not exact matches

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.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and freshman Assemblywoman Monica Wallace also voted against the bill, which among other things, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from detaining individuals based on immigration status and would provide for legal representation for people without documentation who otherwise couldn't afford it.

City Hall has clashed repeatedly with the new administration over New York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from detaining and turning over people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offenses.

The Home Office behaved like a tin - pot dictatorship: detaining innocent people, accusing them of made - up charges without providing anything to back it up, denying them their day in court and then deporting them.

A cross party group of peers has challenged the government's mental health bill, with the Lords voting for a series of amendments that weaken the proposed act's power to detain people with severe personality disorders without consent.

«The court has indicated not surprisingly that it isn't possible in the UK to keep people detained without trial forever.

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.

Approximately 600,000 people are detained in compulsory drug detention centres without due process in East and South East Asia each year, despite reported human rights abuses and lack of evidence that they effectively treat addiction.

The people detained — without handcuffs — were only issued citations and ticketed, not arrested.

«Meanwhile, legal aid cuts have left many vulnerable people, including those detained in immigration detention, without access to the help they need.»

False imprisonment, as defined in Penal Code 236 PC, makes it a crime to detain or confine another person without his or her consent.

(1) Subject to subsection (1.1), if a person who has been arrested without warrant by a peace officer is taken into custody, or if a person who has been arrested without warrant and delivered to a peace officer under subsection 494 (3) or placed in the custody of a peace officer under subsection 163.5 (3) of the Customs Act is detained in custody under subsection 503 (1) for an offence described in paragraph 496 (a), (b) or (c), or any other offence that is punishable by imprisonment for five years or less, and has not been taken before a justice or released from custody under any other provision of this Part, the officer in charge or another peace officer shall, as soon as practicable,

(1) A peace officer who arrests a person with or without warrant or to whom a person is delivered under subsection 494 (3) or into whose custody a person is placed under subsection 163.5 (3) of the Customs Act shall cause the person to be detained in custody and, in accordance with the following provisions, to be taken before a justice to be dealt with according to law:

[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.

The law on deprivation of liberty is «unfit for purpose», leaving thousands of people with dementia or learning disabilities detained in hospitals and care homes without the appropriate checks, the Law Commission has said.

No amount of additional scrutiny by the courts and Parliament can hope to prevent the injustice of an innocent person detained without charge for over a month.»

People with Disabilities Australia (PWDA) estimate that there are at least 100 people detained across Australia without conviction in prisons and psychiatric units under mental impairment legislation; and that at least 50 people from this group would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslPeople with Disabilities Australia (PWDA) estimate that there are at least 100 people detained across Australia without conviction in prisons and psychiatric units under mental impairment legislation; and that at least 50 people from this group would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islpeople detained across Australia without conviction in prisons and psychiatric units under mental impairment legislation; and that at least 50 people from this group would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islpeople from this group would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

Police officers who gave evidence at the coronial inquest described a dramatic increase in the numbers of people being detained at the Darwin Watch House without any corresponding increase in staff.