Talk:Arbitrary arrest and detention

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Arbitrary arrest and detention has been, and remains, a major issue in areas concerning government, law, national security and human rights. It is my hope that other Wikipedia editors will add to what I have begun on the subject of arbitrary arrest and detention.

Subtopics in this article should include:
 * History of Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
 * Effects of Arbitrary Arrest and Detention (on society and in personal/family life)
 * Reasons or Excuses (assumed or fabricated justifications) for Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
 * Prohibitions Against Arbitrary Arrest and Detention (including the organizations passing such prohibitions)
 * List of countries that practiced (or at least condoned) arbitrary arrest and detention in history.--Richontaban 22:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * i removed the abbreviation AAD because it doesn't seem to be standard, as far as i could find.


 * The article on arrest is very non-encyclopedic - it focuses mostly on US and UK, whereas this is a encyclopedia written in English about knowledge, it's not an encyclopedia about knowledge in the rich, English-speaking world. In at least France and Poland, the nearly identical word "arret" or "areszt" mean (if i remember correctly) imprisonment after a conviction, rather than the initial process of grabbing someone or ordering him/her to "come along to the station". The UN terminology referred to (apart from the "schoolbus") has a comma between arrest and detention, it seems to me - referring to "arrest, detention or exile" - so it doesn't necessarily mean the US/UK/Aust. definitions of these terms. So i've just tried to reduce some of the non-universality in the article, but i haven't had time to look for sources.


 * The list of countries that practice arbitrary arrest and detention is here: United Nations member states, maybe minus a few countries. i'd be surprised if you find any countries (except maybe in Scandinavia?) that do not practice arbitrary arrest and/or detention. During the past decade, this has been used very systematically in democracies in order to suppress internal dissent, mostly on short time-scales, and on multi-year time-scales, in order to suppress international dissent - see Bagram Theater Internment Facility for the latter. Boud (talk) 15:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

As evidenced by the ludicrously POV and barely articulate drivel above, this article has no encyclopaedic merit whatsoever. "In practice in the 2000s (decade), arbitrary arrest or detention (the definitions of these terms vary between different national jurisdictions) is typically tolerated by the legal system for a short duration, of a few hours up to a few days, in most democracies, especially in response to political street demonstrations." Seriously? You are confusing the concept of "arbitrary" with "something I don't like". And FYI all Scandinavian countries also regulate "political street demonstrations" including by preventing movement of participants where justified by reasonable concern for public safety. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.170.255.232 (talk) 02:39, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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