The UN Human Rights Committee noted that under article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) ‘arbitrariness’ must be interpreted more broadly than ‘against the law’ to include elements of unreasonableness.
UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR), Samba Jalloh v. Netherlands, Communication 794/1998, Views of 15 April 2002
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