Its purpose is to release someone who has been arrested unlawfully.

The site commemorates the lives of citizens who were either abducted or unlawfully arrested and subsequently killed by the right-wing military dictatorship directed by Augusto Pinochet from 1974 to 1990.

If a person is unlawfully arrested, he is entitled to use reasonable force to free himself.

Two detectives accused of altering a suspect's statement to conceal the fact that he'd been unlawfully arrested have been cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

If you believe you've been arrested and detained unlawfully or your rights have been abused, you can complain to:

There is also a class-action suit in the works, Mr. Brinckerhoff said, on behalf of thousands of others unlawfully arrested statewide.

As a result, it is impossible to know how many people are unlawfully arrested under the statute, brought to a station house and released, the judge said.

She has said that he may have been "unlawfully arrested, unlawfully searched, abused by law enforcement officials, denied access to his lawyer and family."

"We have overwhelming evidence that hundreds of protesters were unlawfully arrested during the convention and we look forward to working with the F.B.I. as it conducts its criminal investigation," he said.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled last May that he had been arrested unlawfully.