pres by before a judge or other officer authorized by how to exercise judicial power and shall be entitled to trial within a reasonable ting or ta release. It shall not be the general rule that persons awaiting trial shall be derined in custody, but release may be subject to guarantees to pear for trial, at any other stage of the judicial proceedings, and, shouid occasion arise, for execution of the judgement.
4. Auyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings before a count, in order that that court may, decide without delay on the lawfulness of his detention and order his release if the detention is not lawful.
5. Anyone who has been the victim of unlawful arrest or detention shall -have an enforceable right to compensation.
U.K. Reservation
4. "The Government of the United Kingdom reserve the right to apply to members of and persons serving with the armed forces of the Crown and to persons lawfully detained in penal establishments of whatever character such laws and procedures as they may from time to time deem to be necessary for the preservation of service and custodial discipline and their acceptance of the provisions of the Covenant is subject to such .estrictions as may for these purposes from time to time be authorised by law."
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Article 10
1. All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person. 2. (a) Accused persons shall, save in exceptional circumistances, be segregated from convicted persons and shall be subject to separate treat- ment appropriate to their status as unconvicted persons;
(b) Accused juvenile persons shall be separated from adults and brought as speedily as possible for adjudication.
3. The penitentiary system shall comprise treatment of prisoners the essential aim of which shall be their reformation and social rehabilita- tion. Juvenile offenders shall be segregated from adults and be accorded treatment appropriate to their age and legal status.
U.K. Reservation
5. "Where at any time there is a lack of suitable prison facilities or where the mixing of adults and juveniles is deemed to be mutually beneficial, the Government of the United Kingdom reserve the right not to apply Article 10(2)(b) and 10(3), so far as those provisions require juveniles who are detained to be accommodated separately from adults, and not to apply article 10(2)(a) in Gibraltar, Montserrat and the Turks
and Caicos Islands in so far as it requires segregation of accused and convicted persons.
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(e) upon reasonable suspicion of his having committed, or being
about to commit, a criminal offence under any law;
under the order of a court or with the consent of his parent or guardian, for his education or welfare during any period ending not later than the date when he attains the age of eighteen years; (g) for the purpose of preventing the spread of an infectious or
contagious disease;
(h) in the case of a person who is, or is reasonably suspected to be, of unsound mind, addicted to drugs or alcohol, or a vagrant, for the purpose of his care or treatment or the protection of the commun- ity;
(i) for the purpose of preventing his unlawful entry into Belize, or for the purpose of effecting his expulsion, extradition or other lawful removal from Belize or for the purpose of restraining him while he is being conveyed through Belize in the course of his extradition or removal as a convicted prisoner from one country to another; or
(i) to such extent as may be necessary in the execution of a lawful order requiring him to remain within a specified area within Belize, or prohibiting him from being within such an area, or to such extent as may be reasonably justifiable for the taking of proceedings against him with a view to the making of any such order or relating to such an order after it has been made, or to such extent as may be reasonably justifiable for restraining him during any visit that he is permitted to make to any part of Belize in which, in consequence of any such order, his presence would otherwise be unlawful.
(2) Any person who is arrested or detained shall be entitled-
(a) to be informed promptly, and in any case no later than forty- eight hours after such arrest or detention. in a language he under- stands, of the reasons for his arrest or detention:
(b) to communicate without delay and in private with a legal prac- titioner of his choice and, in the case of a minor, with his parents or guardian, and to have adequate opportunity to give instructions to a legal practitioner of his choice:
(c) to be informed immediately upon his arrest of his rights under
paragraph (b) of this subsection: and
(d) to the remedy by way of habeas corpus for determining the
validity of his detention.
(3) Any person who is arrested or detained-
(a) for the purpose of bringing him before a court in executio... of the
order of a court;.or
(b) upon reasonable suspicion of his having committed, or being
about to commit, a criminal offence under any law.
and who is not released, shall be brought before a court without undue delay and in any case not later than seventy-two hours after such arrest or detention.
(4) Where any person is brought before a court in execution of the order of a court in any proceedings or upon suspicion of his having committed or being about to commit an offence, he shall not be thereafter further held in custody in connection with those proceedings or that offence save upon the order of a court.
(5) If any person arrested or detained as mentioned in subsection (3)(b) of this section is not tried within a reasonable time, then without prejudice to any further proceedings that may be brought against him, he shall, unless he is released, be entitled to bail on reasonable conditions.
(6) Any person who is unlawfully arrested or detained by any other person shall be entitled to compensation therefor from that other person or from any other person or authority on whose behalf that other person was acting:
Provided that no person shall be liable for any act done in the perfor mance of a judicial function for which he would not be liable apart from this subsection.
(7) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) of this section a person charged before a court with a criminal offence in respect of whom a special verdict has been returned that he was guilty of the act or omission charged but was insane when he did the act or made the omission shall be regarded as a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence and the detention of a person in consequence of such a verdict shall be regarded as detention in execution of the order of a court.