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International Pen was also concerned about the existence of “blasphemy” laws, under which a number of writers and

Germany recommended that Saudi Arabia (a) implement the 2008 recommendations by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, in particular by abolishing the system of male guardianship over women and enacting comprehensive and effective regulations on gender discrimination; (b) lift its general and its specific reservations to CEDAW; and (c)

This camp, which was built during the Ethiopian occupation, is being used by the Eritreans to detain prisoners of war and deserters from the Ethiopian army; it is also being used as a camp for

Section 41 provides that any person who in any “security area” consorts with or is found in the company of another person who is carrying or has in his possession or under his control any firearm, ammunition or explosive in contravention of the provisions of section 40, in circumstances which raise a reasonable presumption that such supplies are intended for the use of any person who intends, or is about, to act, or has recently acted, in a manner prejudicial to public security or the maintenance of public order, or that such supplies are intended for the use of any

Section 40 provides that any person, in any “security area” who carries or has in his possession or under his control any

These issues included measures taken by the authorities with regard to the treatment of detainees at Dantokpa police station and Bohicon gendarmerie; measures taken with regard to the provision of food and water to persons detained in police and gendarmerie custody;

Opposing views were expressed as to whether the right to life entailed the obligation for the State, before expelling an individual, to

A member may resign in writing at any time or be removed by the Governor-General, after consultation with the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, for being of unsound mind or unable to perform his or her

The agreements vary a little, but they generally contain provisions concerning the respective rights and responsibilities of the naval State and Kenya, the treatment, prosecution and trial of the suspect in accordance with international human

(i) Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including inhuman conditions of detention, public executions, extrajudicial and arbitrary detention; the absence of due process and the rule of law, including fair trial guarantees and an

a pattern of systemic violations of … fundamental human rights … includ[ing] multifarious deficits in relation to the administration of justice …

The announcement stated that the Puerto Rican Department of Justice had pledged to undertake local, rather than federal, prosecution of cases whenever possible; the Department would transfer cases to a federal

Remedy recommended Since the author was not duly represented by a lawyer during the first months of his arrest and

(h ) Continuing discrimination and other human rights violations, at times amounting to persecution, against persons belonging to ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, including, inter alia, Arabs, Azeris, Baluchis and Kurds and their defenders, noting, in particular, reports of the violent suppression and detention of ethnic Arabs and Azeris, the violent

Furthermore, chapter 12, section 1, of the Act provides an absolute prohibition against enforcement of a decision on expulsion where there is a fair reason to assume that enforcement of the expulsion

Over the following days, a number of high-profile exiles returned home, including the activist Maung Maung and former Student Army commander Moe

The Soga Monogatari (Tale of the Soga brothers) tells how, after 18 years of hardships,