Activism on arbitrary detention, the suspension of law

• Main Authors: LIM, Li-Ann, ONG, Connie, SUBHAN, Mohamed Salihin, CHOY, Benjamin, SENG, Tan Tee
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2255
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Article 9 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) asserts that “[n]o one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile“.I Despite this, Singapore has a protracted history of arbitrary detention- originating from the Emergency Regulations, introduced under Brit...