This submission has been prepared in advance of the review of Iceland’s 6th periodic on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the UN Human Rights Committee in October 2024. In particular, the submission provides information about harmful and unjustified use of pre-trial solitary confinement, failure to ensure fair trial
- Index Number
- EUR 28/8532/2024
- Pages
- 16
- Published in
- United Kingdom
Table of Contents
- SUBMISSION TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE 142 SESSION 14 OCTOBER7 NOVEMBER 2024 1
- 1. INTRODUCTION 3
- 2. HARMFUL AND UNJUSTIFIED USE OF PRE-TRIAL SOLITARY 3
- CONFINEMENT ARTS. 7 AND 9 3
- 3. FAILURE TO ENSURE FAIR TRIAL GUARANTESS IN 11
- APPLICATIONS FOR SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN PRE- TRIAL DETENTION ART.14 11
- 4. POSSIBLE DISPROPORTIONALITY IN THE APPLICATION OF 13
- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN PRE-TRIAL DETENTION TO FOREIGN NATIONALS ART. 26 13
- 5. USE OF FORCE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ARTS. 14
- 18 19 AND 21 14
- 6. COMMUNICATIONS SURVEILLANCE - INCREASED 14
- SURVEILLANCE ART. 17 14
- AmnestyGlobal 16
- Amnesty 16
