Sentences with phrase «of arbitrary arrest»

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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.

This implies protection against torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and against arbitrary treatment in the form of arrest, detention or exile on grounds not established by law.

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.

«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.

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 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.

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.

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

Establish independent investigations into arbitrary arrests and the excessive use of force against protestors and human rights defenders.

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.»

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.»

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.

In some parts of the country, during the war of 1812, our officers made arbitrary arrests and, by military tribunals, tried citizens who were not in the military service.