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Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly: PACE committee denounces abuse of administrative detention

17 May 2016

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"Expressing concern that administrative detention has been abused to punish political opponents, obtain confessions in the absence of a lawyer, or for stifling peaceful protest, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights calls for other solutions than those undermining the protection of the right to liberty and security.

Adopting a report on administrative detention by Lord Richard Balfe (United Kingdom, EC), the committee calls on all member states to refrain from using administrative detention as a migration management tool; for placing political opponents, human rights activists or journalists in administrative detention with a view to coercing them into confessing a criminal offence; or to prevent people from taking part in a given protest."

See: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Administrative detention in Council of Europe member states – legal limits and possible alternative measures (pdf)

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