Human Rights Council
Resolution 6/4.
Arbitrary detention
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming articles 3, 9, 10 and 29, as well as other relevant provisions of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling articles 9, 10, 11, and 14 to 22 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1991/42 of 5 March
1991 and 1997/50 of 15 April 1997, as well as resolution 2005/28 of 19 April 2005,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006
entitled “Human Rights Council”,
Recalling the resolutions 5/1 “Institution-building of the United Nations
Human Rights Council” and 5/2 “Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandateholders of the Human Rights Council” of 18 June 2007 and stressing that the
mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and
their annexes,
1.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention for a further period of three years, in accordance with resolutions 1991/42
and 1997/50 of the Commission on Human Rights:
(a)
To investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily or
otherwise inconsistently with the relevant international standards set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights or in the relevant international legal
instruments accepted by the States concerned;
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