Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2017
Whatever the reason for their detention, people deprived of their liberty are, by definition, vulnerable. They have been taken out of their normal environment and are no longer allowed to manage their own lives.
1 See ICRC, “Action by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Event of Violations of International Humanitarian Law or of Other Fundamental Rules Protecting Persons in Situations of Violence”, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 87, No. 858, 2005 Google Scholar, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/publication/p0893.htm (accessed in October 2017).