• E4J University Module Series: Counter-Terrorism

• Module 10: Arrest and Detention

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • International legal framework
  • International human rights instruments
  • Regional human rights instruments
  • Key contemporary issues

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• References

 

Published in July 2018.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

International/regional human rights law

• United Nations, Human Rights Committee (2014). General comment No. 35: Article 9 (Liberty and security of person) . 16 December. CCPR/C/GC/35.
• United Nations, Human Rights Council (2014). Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: A compilation of national, regional and international laws, regulations and practices on the right to challenge the lawfulness of detention before court . 30 June. A/HRC/27/47.
• Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force CTITF, Working Group on Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (2014). " Basic Human Rights Reference Guide: Detention on the Context of Countering Terrorism." CTTIF Publication Series. United Nations: New York.
• United Nations, General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2017). Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention . 19 July. A/HRC/36/37.
• United Nations, General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2014). Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention . 30 June. A/HRC/27/48.
• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Guidelines on the Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody and Pre-trial Detention in Africa . Banjul.
• European Court of Human Rights, Press Unit (2018). Factsheet: Terrorism and the European Convention on Human Rights . May.
• Weissbrodt, David, and Brittany Mitchell (2016). " The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Procedures and Summary of Jurisprudence." Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 655-705.

 

Arrest and detention

• Human and Constitutional Rights Resource Page (2008). Case List for various domestic systems on " Arrested, Detained and Accused Persons".
• European Court of Human Rights, Press Unit (2017). Factsheet: Police arrest and assistance of a lawyer . December.
• Open Society Justice Initiative (2012). Arrest Rights Brief No. 2: The Right to Information . June.
• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) (2007). Stamping out rights: the impact of anti-terrorism laws on policing . New Delhi: CHRI. Ch. 4.
• Jinks, Derek P. (2001). " The Anatomy of an Institutionalised Emergency: Preventive Detention and Personal Liberty in India." Michigan Journal of International Law, vol. 22, issue 2, pp. 311-370.
• Macken, Claire (2005). " Preventive Detention and the Right of Personal Liberty and Security under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966."  Adelaide Law Review, vol. 26, pp. 1-28.
• Cassel, Douglas (2009). " International Human Rights Law and Security Detention." Scholarly Works, Paper 650.  

 

Armed conflict

• ICRC (2005). " Procedural Principles and Safeguards for Internment/Administrative Detention in Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence". Report on International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, Annex 1.  » presented to the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent held in Geneva in 2007.
• Deeks, Ashley S.  (2009). " Administrative Detention in Armed Conflict." Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, vol. 40, issue 3, pp. 403-436.
• ICRC (2010). " Contemporary Challenges to IHL - Security Detention." ICRC, 29 October.
• ICRC (2015). " Strengthening International Humanitarian Law - Protecting Persons Deprived of their Liberty." ICRC, 27 April.
• ICRC (2014). " Internment in Armed Conflict: Basic Rules and Challenges." Opinion Paper, 25 November.
• Hartmann, Jacques (2012). " The Copenhagen Process: Principles and Guidelines." EJIL:Talk!, 3 November.
• Oswald, Bruce and Thomas Winkler (2012). " Copenhagen Process Principles and Guidelines on the Handling Detainees in International Military Operations." Insights, vol. 16, issue 39.
• International Commission of Jurists (2015). Legal Commentary on the Right to Challenge the Lawfulness of Detention in Armed Conflict. Geneva.
• Tsagourias, Nicholas (2017). " Detention in International and Non-International Armed Conflict." Research Guide: International Law.

 

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