What is arbitrary or unlawful detention? How can we identify it?

The Arbitrary Detention of a British National in Saudi Arabia: How the Country’s Anti-Terrorism Laws Clash with the Image It Wants to Give the World

Saudi Arabia has been making a strict application of two particular laws: the Anti-Cybercrimes Law (2008) and the Penal Law for Crimes of Terrorism and its Financing (2014). Their vague content has been repeatedly used by the Saudi authorities to arrest and detain political dissidents or peaceful protesters arbitrarily. The following cases are brought before the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC), established in 2008, whose accountability has ofte…

In light of recent cases of detainees who were released and of people who were not detained after being accused by their neighbors, a legal expert explains what an arbitrary or illegal detention is and how to identify it. In an interview with Diario de Yucatán, Antonio Noh Peraza, a law graduate, private litigator, and former head of the […]