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461 Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials

Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials (adopted at the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990), UN Doc. A/CONF.144/28/Rev.1 at 112, Principle 18; UN Human Rights Committee, General comment No. 37 (2020) on the right of peaceful assembly (article 21), UN Doc. CCPR/C/GC/37, 17 September 2020, para. 88; IACHR, Report on Citizen Security and Human Rights, OEA/Ser.L/V/II, Doc 57, 31 December 2009, para. 118; IACHR, Annual Report 2015, March 17, 2016, Chapter IV.A, para. 81; AComHPR, Guidelines for the Policing of Assemblies by Law Enforcement Officials in Africa, 4 March 2017, para. 21.1.4.

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