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

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.

During 2004 the IBA and HRI have continued to keep a watching brief on anti terrorist laws and the use of indefinite detention.

(h) The State party should review, as a matter of urgency, the alternatives available to indefinite detention under the Anti terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

An ACSJC position paper was included with this communication. The ACSJC consistently called for an end to the indefinite detention of detainees and for their immediate access to the ordinary processes of justice.

In the same year the ACSJC communicated with Justice Louis Joinet, Chairman of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, concerning the indefinite detention of two Australians at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the denial of rights under the Third Geneva Convention and the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.

The indefinite extension of the NPT did not imply indefinite possession by nuclear weapon States of their nuclear weapons arsenals.

On 10 October 2003, officials from the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Security Police orally informed Thich Quang Do that he had been placed in administrative detention for an indefinite period.

At present, accreditation is granted for an indefinite period.

Recommends that no person should be transferred to a State where there is a real risk of indefinite detention without trial or of any proceedings which may be brought against the person transferred being conducted in flagrant violation of international due process standards

There could be no excuse for their use, development, acquisition or indefinite possession.

The information available to the Working Group supports the allegation of the source that Thich Quang Do was placed under administrative detention on 10 October 2003 for an indefinite time, and since then he is confined to solitary confinement in his room in the monastery, where he is living.

The States parties underscore that the indefinite extension of the Treaty does not imply the indefinite possession by the nuclear weapon States of their nuclear arsenals, and consider, in this regard, that any assumption of indefinite possession of nuclear weapons is incompatible with the integrity and sustainability of the nuclear non proliferation regime, both vertical and horizontal, and with the broader objective of maintaining international peace and security.

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Last month, a highly reputable source confirmed that the Guantánamo prisoners are suffering from more than indefinite detention. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation released documents showing that an FBI agent witnessed on several occasions detainees who were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, without a chair, or food or water.

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Achieving permanence with accountability, the concept that underlay the indefinite extension of the treaty, is also a key goal.

The indefinite extension of the Treaty and accompanying decisions in 1995 included a commitment to a strengthened review process.

Substantive issues Arbitrary detention right to take proceedings before court to challenge lawfulness of detention

Approximately 79 per cent of the overall cost for detention services relates to detention guards.

Moreover, the United States has been squandering much of its capacity to promote human rights internationally. In responding to the terrorist attacks on its own soil on September 11, 2001, the US has resorted to such measures as prolonged indefinite detention without charges, trials before military commissions lacking due process safeguards, and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees, including torture.

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A new preventative detention regime that allows detention for up to 48 hours in a terrorism situation.

There is continued concern about the situation of women in detention and the issue of illegal detention.

In certain situations, persons reportedly have been transferred to unknown locations and have been detained incommunicado for prolonged or indefinite periods.

(i) Consider amending its legislation and practice relating to pre trial detention, so that such detention is imposed only as an exceptional measure, taking into account the recommendations on alternatives to pre trial detention adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in December 2003

(j) At the poor conditions of detention and long pre trial detention periods of up to three years

However, they did not present an arrest warrant, detention order, or any other written document justifying the detention.

Women who are under temporary detention and violate regulations of the detention center and thus are subject to punishment of isolated detention in a separate room will not be fettered like men.

The reason for his continued detention is that under Pakistani migration laws, an alien in detention in Pakistan cannot be released from detention unless and until he has been issued travel documents.

In response, UNHCR and its partners sought access to detention sites, reporting on conditions and exploring alternatives to detention.

(j) Improve conditions in places of detention, ensuring that they conform to international minimum standards, adopt necessary measures to reduce the pre trial detention period and continue to address overcrowding in places of detention

So canny outlaws are better than nothing, but it's hard to imagine any canny outlaw sustaining that for an indefinite period of time.

(a) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

The independent expert was informed of the persistence of torture and arbitrary detention, particularly in military installations or illegal detention centres.

(e) The date and time of admission to the place of detention and the authority responsible for the place of detention

She was able to challenge her detention before a court several times, but the courts did not find her detention unlawful.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was an integral part of the indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Nuclear weapon States should not assume that the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995 gives them carte blanche to retain nuclear weapons indefinitely.