A/HRC/19/57 (h) Non-derogability: even in cases provided for in article 4 of the Covenant, and in cases of armed conflict – whether between two or more States parties or within the same State party – in conformity with the Geneva Conventions. Provision to that effect has been made by all human rights bodies of the United Nations system (see Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/36, para. 16, and many others, including resolution 1994/32, which refers to habeas corpus as “a personal right not subject to derogation, including during states of emergency”). 64. Constitutional or legal provisions governing the remedy of habeas corpus must provide safeguards against the following indications of a possible infringement of personal liberty: (a) The absence of a detention order; (b) The absence of legal grounds for the detention order; (c) The judicial body’s lack of independence from the authority that ordered the deprivation of liberty; (d) individual; The authority’s lack of legal competence to order the detention of an (e) Enforcement of a legal detention order by public servants neither authorized to do so nor duly identified; (f) Failure to show the detention order at the time of the arrest; (g) Transfer of the detainee to a non-public location not equipped to serve as a place of detention; (h) Use of prolonged incommunicado detention; (i) Delay in bringing the detainee before the judicial authority within the shortest period of time provided for by law; (j) Failure to inform the persons closest to the detainee of all relevant circumstances, especially in the case of minors; (k) Failure to notify the diplomatic or consular representative of the detainee’s country of his or her arrest; (l) Failure to record the entry into custody of a detainee in the logbook, as required by law, at the actual time of his or her admission, and to log in the corresponding detention order and its justification, the names of the officials who performed the arrest, and the date and time of the detainee’s admission and appearance before the court; same; (m) Failure to provide notification of the right to an interpreter and the use of (n) Denial of bail, or imposition of excessive bail, for release from custody during the trial; (o) Detention resulting from the legitimate exercise of a universally recognized human right; (p) Deprivation of liberty that constitutes the failure, in whole or in part, to comply with international rules relating to the right to a fair trial; (q) Holding immigrants or asylum-seekers in custody for prolonged periods of time without recourse to other legal remedies for challenging such custody; law; 20 (r) Arrest that constitutes an act of discrimination prohibited by international

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