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The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Procedures and Summary of Jurisprudence
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, Number 3, August 2016
- pp. 655-705
- 10.1353/hrq.2016.0047
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
For nearly twenty-five years, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has provided a well-respected jurisprudence on fundamental human rights, such as: freedom of expression and religion; limits on administrative detention; restrictions on discrimination in detention; and violations of the right to fair trial. The Working Group has amassed a unique collection of legal principles applicable to individuals detained by the United States, including asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees. The decisions of the Working Group have also applied to non-state actors.