Louis Joinet, United Nations independent expert on Human Rights violation, has visited 172 prisons and detention centres all over the world :
“In arbitrary detention, what I learnt from our visits, is that […] the fact that we visit people, that the UN comes, give them courage. When you’re imprisoned, the problem is resisting.”
In this interview, he enunciates the circumstances in which the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was created, the most striking achievements of the Group in the last 20 years, how the group’s intervention processes work and exposes his vision of the Arab Spring.
