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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 52 No 1 (2006), 65–79
Zákaz mučení v judikatuře Evropského soudu pro lidská práva
[Prohibition of Torture in Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights]
Jiří Herczeg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.103
published online: 14. 02. 2025
abstract
The purpose of this article is the protection of the imprisoned or arrested people against the possibility of pressure or even torture by the repressive organs. Is the prohibition really absolute, doesn’t it come face to face of the global terrorism to a relativisation of this law? That is the major question, the author is trying to answer. The author depicts in the article the most important international obligations of the Czech Republic in the area of the protection against torture and it leads especially to the European Convention on Homan Rights. On concrete cases, which the European Court of Human Rights solved, is depicted article 3 of the Arrangement and individual conceptions, such as torturing, not human or humiliating treatment. In the following part of the article, the operation before the European Court is described and the process guarantees, which is confessed to the harmed by article 3. In the last part of the article, the author is thinking about the relativisation of the absolute prohibition of torturing after September 11th 2001. The author comes to the conclusion that the judicature of the European court for torturing is unambiguous. The prohibition of torture, not human or humiliating treatment is absolute, the Arrangement prohibits it even in the most serious circumstances, such as are the fight against the terrorism or organised crime.
keywords: Torture; European Convention on Human Rights; European Court of Human Rights; Terrorism and organised crime; Prohibition of torturing
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