Sentences with phrase «for arbitrary arrests»

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.

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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.

He writes that arbitrary arrests, which are permitted under the official state of emergency that's existed for decades, are among the longest - running complaints that Egyptians have against their government.

Earlier this week, departing Ontario ombudsman Andre Martin stated in a report, «Stopping citizens without an objective an reasonable basis for believing that they may be implicated in a recent or ongoing criminal offence, or where there are reasonable and probably grounds to arrest them, is unconstitutional — it's a form of arbitrary detention contrary to section 9 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.»