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    ARREST IN LIEU: AN ANALYSIS OF CASES BASED ON SELECTED STATES ACJ LAWS - VOL. 15 AUGUST 2023
    (Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) With support from The John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2023) Laura Ani
    Multiple international and national human rights instruments prohibit the infringement of human rights; the international human rights documents include, inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1981), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), while at the national level, the primary document is the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN), as altered, alongside other instruments such as the Child Rights Act (2007), the Anti-Torture Act (2017), and the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (2015), which deal specifically with the topic under review.