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Monitoring and Investigating Death in Custody
For the purpose of this booklet, custody refers to any place where individuals are being held by law enforcement officers or people acting with the agreement of law enforcement officers. These places of detention, restriction,
or imprisonment by the state may include: prisons, police stations, goals, military camps, illegal and/or secret places of detention, the back of a police car, an airport lounge, etc. In many situations, death in custody may also constitute a political killing, for instance, when the victim died as a result of a summary execution or of torture.
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