2010 ED] CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES [CAP 167
(8) A person who is detained has the right to take proceedings
before the Supreme Court in order that the Court may decide on
the lawfulness of the detention and order the release of the person
if the detention is not lawful.
(9) Proceedings under clause (8) shall be dealt with as a matter of
urgency by the Supreme Court and shall take priority over other
proceedings of the Court listed for hearing on that day.
(10) A person who has been unlawfully arrested or detained has a
right to receive compensation from the person who unlawfully
arrested or detained that person or from any other person or
authority, including the State on whose behalf or in the course of
whose employment the unlawful arrest or detention was made or
from both of them.
(11) A person who has not been convicted of an offence, if kept
or confined in a prison or place of detention, shall not be treated
as a convicted person and shall be kept away from any convicted
person.
(12) An offender or a suspect who is a minor and who is kept in
lawful custody or detention shall be kept separately from any
adult offender of suspect.
(13) A female offender or suspect who is kept in lawful custody
or detention shall be kept separately from any male offender or
suspect.
(14) Where a person is convicted of any offence, any period
which the person has spent in custody in respect of the offence
shall be taken into account by the court in imposing any sentence
of imprisonment for the offence.
(15) A person shall not be imprisoned merely on the ground of
the inability to fulfill a contractual obligation.
(16) Clause (15) shall not limit the powers of a court under any
law in enforcing is orders.
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