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Samba Jalloh v. Netherlands, UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR), Communication 794/1998, Views of 15 April 2002

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.

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