Human Rights: Article 9 - No One Shall be Subjected to Arbitrary Arrest, Detention or Exile

By Avsin, Ozan, Lucia, Anamari, Marianna, Hana und Juliana

This article safeguards the fundamental right to liberty and legal protection, ensuring that every individual can live free from unjust imprisonment, political persecution, or forced displacement. It affirms that no authority has the right to detain or punish a person without fair cause and due process. Yet, in many parts of the world, people are still deprived of their freedom without legal justification. Arbitrary arrests of journalists, activists, and minorities continue to threaten justice and democracy. As part of our Erasmus+ project “Youth for Human Rights”, students from Germany, Croatia, Portugal, Slovakia, Greece, and Turkey collaborated to explore the meaning of this right today.
Through research, creative teamwork, and intercultural dialogue, they examined how violations of personal freedom affect societies and what young people can do to protect justice, transparency, and the rule of law. This video presents their insights and reflections — a reminder that freedom is fragile, and that every generation must defend the right to fair treatment and human dignity.