This conundrum is symbolized by the debate over detaining terrorism suspects without charge or trial. Initially, Blair attempted to force through detention without charge for up to 90 days.

GUANTÁNAMO BAY I write this from the United States Detention Center at Guantánamo Bay, where I have been held without charge for almost seven years.

U Tin Oo (aged 77), the Vice Chairman of NLD who has been under house arrest without charge since 30 May 2003, had his detention extended by another year on 13 February 2005.

The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government to review and amend those laws and to repeal those provisions in the 1975 State Protection Law that allow detention by executive order without charge or trial.

Besides allowing the authorities to arbitrarily detain anyone for engaging in peaceful political activities that the Government may consider subversive, it permits the authorities to extend the detention of prisoners without charge or trial, thereby violating international legal standards.

So called enemy combatants remain in indefinite incommunicado detention without formal charges and are unable to challenge the basis of their detention.

Since May 2003, she has been held without charge or trial.

The source alleges that Mr. al Zu'bi's detention is without any legal basis.

The PTA facilitates arbitrary arrest, lengthy detention of suspects without trial and attendant abuses.

Particularly problematic developments since 11 September 2001 have included the indefinite, prolonged or incommunicado detention of terrorist suspects without access to courts, the unacknowledged or secret detention of suspected terrorists, and the detention of children in connection with anti terrorism measures.

The Working Group therefore considers that, as from 5 December 2002, Mr. Haidera's continued detention without any legal basis, which under international standards a detention order may constitute, is arbitrary.

Altogether, women in detention had about 50 children left behind unattended at their homes, without proper care.

Many detainees are reported to have spent several years in detention, sometimes up to nine years, without sentence.

Hundreds of people suspected of links with FNL were arrested without warrants, held beyond the legal limit without charge and incommunicado, and some were tortured.

Britain is not the only country where ancient rights of habeas corpus, of the inviolability of the person, are to be restricted by new legislation that, for example, extends the permissible length of detention without charge. Now, even the fundamental right of a liberal order, free speech, is under pressure.

Even before the new charge of fraud was added on 1 June 2005, Mr. Zhao had already been held in detention beyond the legal limit prescribed by Chinese law.

Thich Huyen Quang is under permanent detention in the monastery without having been notified of any charges against him.

After Lee received the detention ruling, without the permission of the Shuyang court, he privately sold partial egg laying hens.

(a) The length of pre trial detention, including detention beyond 48 hours as stipulated by article 23, clause 4, of the Constitution and the possibility of detaining treason and terrorism suspects for 360 days without bail

The Working Group considers that keeping in administrative detention a person who has fully served his sentence, and whose release has been ordered by the body in charge of controlling the legality of administrative detention in the framework of a deportation process, confers an arbitrary character on the deprivation of liberty.

3.3 The author argues that his imprisonment without a fair trial amounts to arbitrary detention, in violation of article 9 of the Covenant.

Detainees held under terrorist and public security acts had been treated in accordance with the law and were provided with a formal charge sheet explaining the reason for their detention under the respective legal provisions.

The most familiar charge is electric charge.

(j) Allow independent human rights monitors, including the Uganda Human Rights Commission, full access to all official and non official places of detention, without notice

With incommunicado detention continuing to be used by Government personnel, political activists are often arrested and detained without the knowledge or notification of their families.

ONUB human rights observers report that holding of suspects in detention centres beyond the statutory limit, or without supporting evidence, continues to be a common problem.

That a person should be deprived of liberty for more than five years without trial is clearly an unacceptable delay that makes that person's detention unjust.

(c) To respect and promote the right of anyone who is deprived of his her liberty by arrest or detention to be entitled to bring proceedings before a court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his her detention and order his her release if the detention is not lawful, in accordance with their international obligations

Administrative departments shall be forbidden to set up intermediate agencies for coal supply and charge extra fees in violation of State regulations and without authorization.

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(d) The cases of torture and ill treatment of civilians, extrajudicial summary or arbitrary execution, arbitrary arrest, detention without trial and corporal punishment in its cruellest forms

The officials of the SIZO No. 1 Detention Centre in Dushanbe allegedly had refused to accept her parcels, telling that her son was removed, without explaining further.

The independent expert learned that on 18 May 2004, 55 demonstrators were arrested and detained in a prison 100 kilometres outside Mogadishu, without charge or trial.

The system is available without charge to Member States and United Nations agencies, and United Nations country teams (UNCTs) can support its implementation in over 80 countries.

The Committee therefore considers that the illegality of the author's 40 day detention, without access to a judge, is subsumed by the violations of article 9, paragraphs 1 and 3, first sentence, and that no issue of prolonged pretrial detention arises under article 9, paragraph 3, second sentence.

There are many reports from a variety of sources concerning alleged transgressions in this field, often linked with laws and institutions, especially prisons and detention centres, where conditions are below international standards aggravated by poor law enforcement and malpractice, including preventive administrative detention without access to credible courts.

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On 22 May, UNAMA issued a public statement urging CF to make public without delay the measures that have been taken to eradicate mistreatment and improve conditions of detention.

After 7.30 p.m., the complainant was released, again without being shown an arrest warrant or a release order, nor was he told the reason for his arrest and detention.

7.7 In relation to the alleged violation of the right to be free from arbitrary arrest and detention, it is uncontested that the author was arrested without a warrant.