Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

And pretty soon we're going to be speaking with Sahini, but just give a little bit of a brief introduction.

The human rights consequences of Queensland's approach to criminalisation and incarceration has come under increasing national and international attention, including through the recent Senate inquiry into Australia's youth justice and incarceration system and other special legislations, including Indigenous Peoples and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Topics that we've already spoken about on the Do and Time show with Sahini and Monique in the past.

So I would like to really welcome Sahini to the show.

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Lawyers for the family of Shizuo Aishima, a former advisor to Kakoki Okawara, have submitted a communication dated October 13th to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, arguing that his prolonged detention on false charges violated international human rights standards.

Aishima was arrested and indicted in March 2020 over alleged foreign trade law violations, was diagnosed with stomach cancer about seven months later, and died in February 2021 at age 72.

His family is also suing 37 judges over warrants and rejected bail applications.

The reality on the ground was far more complex.

It was somewhat disappointing to us that the Australian government refused to recognize the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's decision that Robert had been unlawfully detained and arbitrarily detained.

They have never accepted that for reasons that remain unknown to me.

So that was a problem.

Some of them haven't got the mindset to continue waiting, and even for us as family members, we need that date as well to know when our suffering ends, too.

too.Last year, on behalf of five IPP prisoners, Bernadette, along with IPP campaigner Shirley Debono, were instrumental in making a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Hi, Bernadette.

Really pleased that you've come to speak with the Trapped team today.

Tell us a little bit about the United Nations Arbitrary Detention, what it is, and where they're at with it.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention complaint was filed a year ago.

The UN investigated this.

The complaint was served on the government, the UK government, last year, and the findings and the evidence from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention were that all five petitioners, part of the UN complaint, were being held in arbitrary detention.