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How Can I Bring My Claim to a Police Ombudsman or Oversight Body?

A Police Ombudsman is an independent and impartial office that handles complaints about the conduct of police. The Police Ombudsman’s role is to investigate serious complaints made and conduct of staff working for the government’s law enforcement agencies. Although not all countries have a specific ombudsman that deals uniquely with police complaints, many countries have […]

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How Can I Bring a Civil Claim Against the Police?

A civil claim involves arguing that the police violated your private rights in court. The purpose of a civil case is to compensate the person who has been harmed, rather than to punish the relevant authority. If you haven’t suffered a clear form of loss (physical injury, mental injury or financial harm), a civil claim […]

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How Can I Bring an Administrative, Human Rights or Constitutional Challenge?

Administrative law, human rights and constitutional law fall under an umbrella called public law. Public law regulates the relationship between the State and individuals. It defines what rights (i.e. the things people are entitled to) individuals have before agencies and government departments and what obligations (i.e. the things people have a duty to do) these public […]

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How Can I Take Legal Action?

This section of the guide outlines different ways you can enforce your rights and hold the relevant authority responsible for arbitrary detention. These include: (i) Complaints to an independent body such as an «Ombudsman»; (ii) Bringing a civil claim against the police or relevant authority; (iii) Bringing a public law challenge against the police or […]

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Prolonged Pre-Trial Detention

This section will give you an introduction to the issue of prolonged pre-trial detention, the legal framework and suggest ideas about what you could do if you or someone in your community has been detained for an unduly long time. This is related to the subject of “bail” because the risk of prolonged pre-trial detention […]

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Discriminatory Detention

This section will give you an introduction to the issue of discriminatory detention without charge, the legal framework and suggest ideas about what you could do if you or someone in your community has been detained discriminatorily.

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Bail

This section will give you an introduction in the issue of bail, the legal framework and suggest ideas about what you could do if you or someone in your community has been detained without bail.

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Detention without Charge

This section will give you an introduction to the issue of detention without charge, the legal framework and suggest ideas about what you could do if you or someone in your community has been detained with charge.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. They are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. They direct their […]

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Amnesty International

AI is an international NGO that specialises in advocacy on behalf of people under arrest and in detention. They campaign and put pressure on governments to redress human rights abuses. They investigate and expose the facts, whenever and wherever abuses happen. They lobby governments, and other powerful groups such as companies. Making sure they keep […]

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