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"Increased security should be focused on candidates and polling sites. Increased security should be planned not just for election day, but also especially in the preelection period, and should continue into the post-election period where necessary."

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UNHRC: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston: Addendum on Election-Related Violence and Killings, para. 69.a

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston: Addendum on Election-Related Violence and Killings

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The right to security of the person applies to candidates.