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In Kenya, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (“IPOA“) is the independent body which investigates complaints against the police. How to complain: By phoning the complaints management team By emailing the complaints team By writing a letter to the IPOA Or visiting a police station itself. What to include in your complaint: Your name and contact […]
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Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
This is the police oversight body in Trinidad and Tobago that can investigate misconduct by police.
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Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
Brazil, with a federal government system has federal ombudsman bodies. The first police ombudsman in Brazil was established in the state of Sao Paulo in 1995, with the purpose to enhance internal controls of the actions of the state police. Under federal law (Legislative Decree No. 150, 2009) the Ombudsman position must occupied by a […]
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Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
Example of a general oversight body that can investigate police and other public bodies where suspected of misconduct or human rights abuse.
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Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
The IACtHR can issue precautionary measures to order a state not to continue with an action if it would cause a serious and irreparable harm to the person involved. Other regional human rights court have similar mechanisms. The linked resource provides further information on precautionary measures at the IACtHR.
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Legal Topic: Public interest litigation (general),
Article 19 is an organisation that specialises in protecting freedom of expression and the right to protest. The linked resource provides an outline on the human rights law framework on protesting and when one’s right to protest can be restricted.
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Data type: Legal research sources,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Civil and political rights, Detention,
In this case, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights ruled that the arrest and detention of ethnic tutsis solely on the basis of their ethnicity was a grave violation of the right to liberty and security.
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Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
A case where the IACtHR found that an arrest that was undertaken without a written order issued by a judge was a violation of the right to liberty, among many other grave human rights violations in that case.
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Data type: Legal citations,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
“No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to a procedure established by law.” An example of the right to liberty protected under a national constitution.
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Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
“(1) Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law.” “(2) Anyone who is arrested shall be informed, at the time […]
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Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention,
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