Publication
Human Rights Quarterly
Volume
38
Page
655
Year
2016
Abstract
For nearly twenty-five years, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has provided a well-respected jurisprudence on fundamental human rights, such as: freedom of expression and religion; limits on administrative detention; restrictions on discrimination in detention; and violations of the right to fair trial. The Working Group has amassed a unique collection of legal principles applicable to individuals detained by the United States, including asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees. The decisions of the Working Group have also applied to non-state actors.
Recommended Citation
David Weissbrodt and Brittany Mitchell, The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Procedures and Summary of Jurisprudence, 38 Hum. Rts. Q. 655 (2016), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/558.
