Special 'Security" Legislation and Human Rights A Report of Four Regional Workshops and a National Conference on 'Security" Legislation and Human Rights - New Delhi, India Amnesty International 2002 - iii, 59p.

Social, economic and political context of 'security' legislation
1. Legislating insecurity : 'security' legislation and struggles for economic and social justice
2. Nationalism, national security and human rights
Experience under special 'security' legislation: more politics, less law enforcement?
3. POTA and politics of invoking terrorism
4. Special 'security' legislation and religious and ethnic minorities
5. A year of POTA: the worst fears coming true?
Special 'security' legislation and the criminal justice system
6. Preventive arrest and detention
7. Impunity of the police and armed forces
8. Judicial accountability and contempt of court


Special Security
Security Legislation
Human Rights

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