9. 秘密拘留实际上剥夺了被拘留者受法律保护的权利，包括向法院提起诉讼以审查拘留的合法性的权利，而这项基本权利对于保护不可减损权利至关重要，17 秘密拘留侵犯了人身自由和安全权以及禁止任意拘留的规定。18 秘密拘留被用来规避刑事诉讼时，进一步侵犯了公正审判权。19 联合研究报告得出结论认为，每一例秘密拘留也构成一个强迫失踪案件。这相当于严重和明目张胆地侵犯人权，20 其特点是由国家实行拘留，“并拒绝承认剥夺自由之实情，隐瞒失踪者的命运或下落，致使失踪者不能得到法律的保护”。21 因此，它侵犯了一个人在法律面前得到承认的权利。22 此外，大会和联合国人权机制发现，秘密拘留助长酷刑行为的实施，其本身也可构成对被拘留者23 或对因其遭受痛苦的家人的酷刑或虐待。24 这也可能导致侵犯对家庭的保护。25
9. By effectively depriving detainees of the protection of the law, including the right to take proceedings before a court to review the lawfulness of the detention, a right that is essential to the protection of non-derogable rights, 17 secret detention violates the right to personal liberty and security and the prohibition of arbitrary detention. 18 When used to circumvent criminal proceedings, secret detention further entails a violation of the right to a fair trial.19 In the joint study, it was concluded that every instance of secret detention also constitutes an enforced disappearance. This amounts to a grave and flagrant human rights violation20 characterized by a detention by the State, “followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law”. 21 As such, it violates the right to recognition as a person before the law.22 Furthermore, the General Assembly and United Nations human rights mechanisms have found that secret detention facilitates the commission of acts of torture and may itself amount to torture or ill-treatment of the detainee23 or of the family members on whom it inflicts suffering. 24 It may also entail violations of the protection of the family.25