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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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Results for detention (india)
2 results foundAuthor: Asian Centre for Human Rights Title: Torture in India 2010 Summary: Torture in police custody remains a widespread and systematic practice in India. This report updates earlier reports in 2008 and 2009, and suggests that victims suffer high risks of torture in the first twenty four hours following detention. There are no safeguards to ensure that a person taken into custody will have their detention recorded, have prompt access to a lawyer or impartial medication examination upon their arrival at the place of detention, or at the time of their release. Details: New Delhi, India: Asian Centre for Human Rights, 2010. 93p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2010 Country: India URL: Shelf Number: 118590 Keywords: Detention (India)Human Rights (India)Police Use of Force (India)Torture (India) |
Author: Amnesty International Title: A 'Lawless Law': Detentions Under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act Summary: Hundreds of people are locked up on spurious grounds under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir every year. they are held without charge or trial in administrative or “preventive” detention on vague allegations of acting against “the security of the State” or against “the maintenance of public order”. detainees are mainly political activists and suspected members or supporters of armed groups, sometimes including children. Before their formal detention, they are often held illegally, denied access to a lawyer, the courts and their families, and may be tortured during interrogation. The Jammu and Kashmir authorities can hold detainees without charging or prosecuting them for up to two years at a time. Detention orders are often repeated and habeas corpus orders ignored, meaning that detainees are held for much longer than the maximum two-year period provided. This report exposes a catalogue of human rights violations associated with the use of administrative detention under the Public Safety Act. It highlights how these run counter to India’s obligations under international human rights law. If India is serious about meeting these obligations, then it must ensure that the Public Safety Act is repealed and that detainees are released immediately or tried in a court of law. Details: London: Amnesty International, 2011. 86p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 23, 2011 at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA20/001/2011/en/cee7e82a-f6a1-4410-acfc-769d794991b1/asa200012011en.pdf Year: 2011 Country: India URL: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA20/001/2011/en/cee7e82a-f6a1-4410-acfc-769d794991b1/asa200012011en.pdf Shelf Number: 121104 Keywords: Detention (India)Human Rights |