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Arbitrary Detention: UN expert group releases 22 Opinions from 17 countries

Arbitrary Detention / Cases

29 June 2016

GENEVA (29 June 2016) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention released today 22 Opinions concerning 101 individuals in detention in 17 countries. The Opinions were adopted by the expert group during its last session held in Geneva from 18 to 27 April 2016.

The Working Group has a mandate to investigate allegations of individuals being deprived of their liberty in an arbitrary way or inconsistently with international human rights standards, and to recommend remedies such as release from detention and compensation, when appropriate.

The advance unedited version of these opinions can be found at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Detention/Pages/Opinions2016.aspx

The individuals deprived of liberty subject to these Opinions include:

Ms. Zeinab Jalaian (Iran)

Opinion No.1/2016

Ms. Bahareh Hedayat (Iran)

Opinion No. 2/2016

Ms. Farida Ali Abdul Hamid and Mr. Salim Mohamed Musa (Libya)

Opinion No.3/2016

Mr. Abdul Majed Al Gaoud, Mr. Jebril Abdulkarim Al Kadiki, Mr. Omar Suleiman Salem Muftah Al Mouallef, Mr. Abdulaiti Ibrahim Al-Obeidi, Mr. Mansour Dao Ibrahim, Mr. Abu Zaid Omar Dorda, Mr. Saadi Muammer Mohammed Gaddafi, Mr. Abdalla Mahmoud Mohamed Hajazi, Mr. Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, Mr. Mustapha Mohammed Kharoobee, Mr. Ali Mahmoud Maria, Mr. Saad Masoud Saad Zayd (Libya)

Opinion No.4/2016

Mr. Arsen Klinchaev, Mr. Alexander Kharotonov, Mr. Anton Davidenko, Mr. Mikhail Chumachenko, Mr. Dmitry Kouzmenko, Mr. Leonid Baranov, Mr. Konstantin Dolgov, Mr. Ignat Kramskoy, Mr. Pavel Yurevich Gubarev ( Ukraine)

Opinion No.5/2016

Mr. Alaa Ahmed Seif Al Islam Abd El Fattah ( Egypt)

Opinion No.6/2016

Mr. Abdullah Ahmed Mohammed Ismail Alfakharany, Mr. Samhy Mostafa Ahmed Abdulalim, Mr- Mohamed Mohamed Aladili, Mr. Waleed Abdulraoof Shalaby, Mr. Ahmed Sabii, Mr. Youssouf Talat Mahmoud Mahmoud Abdulkarim, Mr. Hani Salheddin, Mr. Mosaad Albarbary, Mr. Abdo Dasouki (Egypt)

Opinion No. 7/2016

Mr. Richard Spyros Hagabimana (Burundi)

Opinion No.8/2016

Mr. Amer Jamil Jubran (Jordan)

Opinion No.9/2016

Mr. Befekadu Hailu, Mr. Zelalem Kibret, Mr. Atnaf Berhane, Mr. Natnail Feleke, Ms. Mahlet Fantahun, Mr. Abel Wabella, Mr. Tesfalem Waldyes, Mr. Asmamaw Hailegiorgis, Ms. Edom Kassaye (Ethiopia)

Opinion No. 10/2016

Mr. Yu Shiwen (China)

Opinion No. 11/2016

Ms. Sandy Phan-Gillis (China)

Opinion No. 12/2016

A child whose is known to the Working Group (Israel)

Opinion No. 13/2016

Mr. Alexander Klykov (Russia)

Opinion No. 14/2016

Ms. Khalida Jarrar (Israel)

Opinion No. 15/2016

Mr. José Daniel Gil Trejos (Nicaragua)

Opinion No. 16/2016

Mr. Jesús Eduardo Sánchez Silva, Mr. Diblallin Islas Rojas, Mr. Jaime García Matías, Mr. Luis Enrique Matías Hernández, Mr. Erik Omar Rodríguez Santiago, Mr. Germán Guadalupe Mendoza Cruz, Mr. Santiago García Espinoza, Mr. Felipe López Morales, Mr. José Alberto Andrés López, Mr. Javier López Martínez, Mr. José Usiel Matías Hernández, Mr. Erick González Guillén, Mr. Javier Aluz Mancera, Mr. José Enrique Ordaz Velasco, Mr. Humberto Castellanos López, Mr. Eduardo Palma Santiago, Mr. Jorge Chonteco Jiménez, Mr. Luis Enrique López López, Mr. José de Jesús Martínez Castellanos, Mr. Bailón Rojas Gómez, Mr. Eugenio Hernández Gaitán, Mr. Celso Castillo Martínez, Mr. Eleuterio Hernández Bautista, Sr. Roque Coca Gómez, Mr. Feliciano García Matías (Mexico)

Opinion No. 17/2016

Mr. Ravi Ramesh Ghaghda, Mr. Anthony Keya Munialo, Mr. Chuma Boniface Muriuki, Mr. Peter Muriuki Nkonge Mr. Anthony Mwadime Wazome  (South Sudan)

Opinion No. 18/2016

Mr. Mauro Vay Gonon, Mr. Mariano García Carrillo, Ms. Mariano García Carrillo  (Guatemala)

Opinion No. 19/2016

Mr. Walid Yunis Ahmad (Iraq)

Opinion No. 20/2016

Mr. Henrique Luaty da Silva Beirão, Mr. Manuel Chivonde (also known as Nito Alves), Mr. Nuno Álvaro Dala, Mr. Nelson Dibango Mendes dos Santos, Mr. Hitler Jessy Chivonde (also known as Hitler Samussuko), Mr. Albano Evaristo Bingobingo, Mr. Sedrick Domingos de Carvalho, Mr. Fernando António Tomás (also known as Nicolas o Radical, Mr. Arante Kivuvu Italiano Lopes, Mr. Benedito Jeremias (also known as Dito Dali), Mr. Inocêncio Antônio de Brito, Mr. José Gomes Hata, Mr. Osvaldo Sérgio Correia Caholo, Mr. Domingos da Cru, 31 years (Angola)

Opinion No. 21/2016

Mr. Marafa Hamidou Yaya (Cameroon)

Opinion No. 22/2016

To access all opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention since it was stablished in 1991, log on to:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Detention/Pages/OpinionsadoptedbytheWGAD.aspx  

ENDS

The Working Group is comprised of five independent expert members from various regions of the world. The Chair-Rapporteur is Mr. Sètondji Roland Jean-Baptiste Adjovi (Benin). Other members of the Working Group are: Mr. José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez (Vice-Chair on Communications, Mexico), Ms. Leigh Toomey (Vice-Chair on Follow-up, Australia), Mr. Seong-Phil Hong (Republic of Korea) and Mr. Vladimir Tochilovsky (Ukraine).

The Working Group was established by the former Commission on Human Rights in 1991 to investigate instances of alleged arbitrary deprivation of liberty. Its mandate was clarified and extended by the Commission to cover the issue of administrative custody of asylum-seekers and immigrants. On 26 September 2013, the Human Rights Council extended the Working Group’s mandate for a further three-year period. Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Detention/Pages/WGADIndex.aspx

The Working Groups are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.

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