International Delinquency (continued)

Abstract

Many were the claims brought before the Commission based on wrongful arrest or detention, imprisonment for an unwarranted period, maltreatment during detention, or on some other forms of unlawful treatment suffered by an alien at the hands of judicial authorities and those acting under their orders. It should be kept in mind that the category now to be dealt with could be brought within the term „denial of justice” in the larger sense, accepted by some authors; even under our limited conception, explained in the previous chapter, most of the acts in question could be held to constitute a denial of justice in its original meaning, particularly those consisting of a refusal of certain fundamental rights to an arrested alien.