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The Working Group requests the Government of China to take the necessary steps to remedy the situation, which include the immediate end of the house arrest, and adequate reparation to Liu Xia.

Mr. Gbagbo is reportedly under house arrest at a military facility near the city of Korhogo, in the zone under the control of Mr. Fofié.

[...] [...] house arrest may be compared to deprivation [...] [...]

[...] [...] as fines, house arrest, or imprisonment, but does [...] [...]

Current review of electronic remote supervisory tools and the rules of application of house arrest are also aimed at reducing the number of detainees in pre-trial detention.

The Government stresses that Israeli practices in the occupied Syrian Golan exceed all legal and moral bounds, the most recent example being the imposition by the Israeli occupation authorities of two years’ house arrest on a two-year-old child, Fahid Lu’ay Shuqeir, on the pretext that he was born outside Israel when his parents were studying in the Syrian Arab Republic.

[...] San Suu Kyi, the imprisoned democracy leader [...]

Israel had subjected the population of the Golan to harsh, tyrannical and inhuman conditions of internment and had held show trials of Syrian detainees, arbitrarily arresting two Syrian journalists on a charge of communicating with their homeland, and imposing house arrest on a two-year-old child on the pretext that he was born outside the Syrian Golan while his parents were studying at the University of Damascus, as described in paragraph 92 of the Special Committee’s report.

He noted that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had been registered on the candidate list and that the Supreme Court had declared the appeal against her house arrest to be admissible.

However, in breach of the principle that pretrial detention must not be considered the general rule, but an exceptional measure, the house arrest ordered by the supervisory judge for health reasons, was cancelled.

[...] available, including home-detention orders [...]

Indeed, Israel had placed a child under house arrest, just because the child had been born in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Expressing grave concern at the trial, conviction and continued arbitrary house arrest of the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the rejection of her judicial appeal by the Myanmar Supreme Court

For example, house arrest was imposed for years against Fahd Shokir, a two-year-old child, under the pretext that he had been born outside Israeli territory while his parents were studying in Syria.

The Monitoring Sentences Act (330/2011) that took effect in 2011 also enables electronically supervised home arrest instead of a prison terms for total objectors declining both military and non-military service.

[...] bracelets for house imprisonment of persons [...] [...]

It is noteworthy that the prolongation of her house arrest has been entirely due to her refusal to cooperate with the Office of the Public Prosecutor.

[...] [...] Supreme Court and imprisoned the judges in their [...] [...]

The Vice-Chairman of the NLD, U Tin Oo, also remains under house arrest after having it extended for a year in February.

Even the Punjab Home Secretary who issued both the detention orders told the Commission that they were for her protection and “administrative” reasons.

(l ) Ongoing, systemic and serious restrictions of freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, including those imposed on the media, political opponents, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, Internet providers, Internet users, bloggers, clerics, artists, filmmakers, academics, students, labour leaders and trade unions, from all sectors of Iranian society

[...] [...] her arbitrary house arrest, and noting [...] [...]

Those same sources also stated that former CNDP chairman General Laurent Nkunda, officially under house arrest by the Rwandan Government since January 2009, often comes from Kigali to participate in these meetings.

According to the information it has received, and where the Government has not provided the Working Group with any further assistance, Liu Xia is under house arrest with limitations on her physical movements, on visits from others and on various means of communication.

In 2005, the Government introduced the special regime of early provisional release; it strengthened policies for the social reintegration of prisoners and released persons (for instance, reserving 5 per cent of jobs in public-works and competitive bidding projects); it introduced house arrest for persons above the age of 70 without a record of serious offences, pregnant women and seriously ill persons; and it introduced a system of remission of penalty by work or study at the rate of one day of imprisonment for two days of work or study.