The International 
  Covenant for Civil and Political Rights lays out international standards of 
  due process. These include: 
  
Article 9 
  
  1. Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be 
  subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his 
  liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are 
  established by law. 
  2. Anyone who is arrested shall be informed, at the time of arrest, of the reasons 
  for his arrest and shall be promptly informed of any charges against him. 
  3. Anyone arrested or detained on a criminal charge shall be brought promptly 
  before a judge or other officer authorized by law to exercise judicial power 
  and shall be entitled to trial within a reasonable time or to release. It shall 
  not be the general rule that persons awaiting trial shall be detained in custody, 
  but release may be subject to guarantees to appear for trial, at any other stage 
  of the judicial proceedings, and, should occasion arise, for execution of the 
  judgment. 
  4. Anyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled 
  to take proceedings before a court, in order that court may decide without delay 
  on the lawfulness of his detention and order his release if the detention is 
  not lawful. 
  5. Anyone who has been the victim of unlawful arrest or detention shall have 
  an enforceable right to compensation. 
  
Article 14
  1. All persons shall be equal before the courts and tribunals. In the determination 
  of any criminal charge against him, or of his rights and obligations in a suit 
  at law, everyone shall be entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, 
  independent, and impartial tribunal established by law. The press and the public 
  may be excluded from all or part of a trial for reasons of morals, public order 
  (ordre public) or national security in a democratic society, or when the interest 
  of the private lives of the parties so requires, or to the extent strictly necessary 
  in the opinion of the court in special circumstances where publicity would prejudice 
  the interests of justice; but any judgment rendered in a criminal case or in 
  a suit at law shall be made public except where the interest of juvenile persons 
  otherwise requires or the proceedings concern matrimonial disputes or the guardianship 
  of children. 
  2. Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall have the right to be presumed 
  innocent until proved guilty according to law. 
  3. In the determination of any criminal charge against him, everyone shall be 
  entitled to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality: 
  (a) To be informed promptly and in detail in a language which he understands 
  of the nature and cause of the charge against him; 
  (b) To have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defense 
  and to communicate with counsel of his own choosing; 
  (c) To be tried without undue delay; 
  (d) To be tried in his presence, and to defend himself in person or through 
  legal assistance of his own choosing; to be informed, if he does not have legal 
  assistance, of this right; and to have legal assistance assigned to him, in 
  any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by him 
  in any such case if he does not have sufficient means to pay for it; 
  (e) To examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him and to obtain the 
  attendance and examination of witnesses on his behalf under the same conditions 
  as witnesses against him; 
  (f) To have the free assistance of an interpreter if he cannot understand or 
  speak the language used in court; 
  (g) Not to be compelled to testify against himself or to confess guilt. 
  4. In the case of juvenile persons, the procedure shall be such as will take 
  account of their age and the desirability of promoting their rehabilitation. 
  
  5. Everyone convicted of a crime shall have the right to his conviction and 
  sentence being reviewed by a higher tribunal according to law. 
  6. When a person has by a final decision been convicted of a criminal offence 
  and when subsequently his conviction has been reversed or he has been pardoned 
  on the ground that a new or newly discovered fact shows conclusively that there 
  has been a miscarriage of justice, the person who has suffered punishment as 
  a result of such conviction shall be compensated according to law, unless it 
  is proved that the non-disclosure of the unknown fact in time is wholly or partly 
  attributable to him. 
  7. No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which 
  he has already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law 
  and penal procedure of each country. 
  
Article 15  
  
  1. No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act 
  or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence, under national or international 
  law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed 
  than the one that was applicable at the time when the criminal offence was committed. 
  If, subsequent to the commission of the offence, provision is made by law for 
  the imposition of the lighter penalty, the offender shall benefit thereby. 
  2. Nothing in this article shall prejudice the trial and punishment of any person 
  for any act or omission which, at the time when it was committed, was criminal 
  according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations.