Contents
6.5
7.
Codes of professional discipline ....................................................................157
Concluding Remarks .......................................................................................158
Chapter 5
Human Rights and Arrest, Pre-trial Detention
and Administrative Detention......................................159
Learning Objectives.................................................................................................159
Questions ..................................................................................................................159
Relevant Legal Instruments....................................................................................160
1.
Introduction......................................................................................................161
2.
Arrests and Detention without Reasonable Cause: a Persistent
Problem .............................................................................................................161
3.
The Right to Liberty and Security of the Person: Field of
Applicability of the Legal Protection ............................................................162
3.1
3.2
4.
Universal legal responsibility: All States are bound by the law .................162
The notion of security of person: State responsibility to act.....................162
Lawful Arrests and Detentions......................................................................163
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
The legal texts ...................................................................................................163
The notions of lawfulness and arbitrariness: their meaning ......................165
4.2.1 Unacknowledged detentions, abductions and involuntary
disappearances..........................................................................................169
Detention after conviction..............................................................................172
Arrest and detention for non-compliance with the lawful order of
a court or in order to secure the fulfilment of any obligation
prescribed by law..............................................................................................173
Detention on reasonable suspicion of having committed an
offence ...............................................................................................................173
4.5.1 The meaning of “reasonableness” ..............................................................174
Detention in order to prevent flight..............................................................175
Administrative detention.................................................................................175
4.7.1 Deprivation of liberty for the purpose of educational supervision .................176
4.7.2 Deprivation of liberty for reasons of mental health .....................................177
4.7.3 Deprivation of liberty of asylum seekers and for purposes of
deportation and extradition ......................................................................179
4.7.4 Preventive detention and detention for reasons of ordre public .................180
The right to be promptly informed of reasons for arrest and
detention and of any charges against oneself...............................................181
The right to be promptly brought before a judge or other
judicial officer ...................................................................................................185
4.9.1 The legitimate decision-making organ........................................................189
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