What Does the Prohibition of “Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment” Mean? the Interpretation of the European Commission and Court of Human Rights

Netherlands International Law Review

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 24-50

  Doswald Beck, Louise ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84921597368     PISSN: 0165070X     EISSN: 17416191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0165070X00015060     Document Type: Article

References (121)

1. Article 27(2): “The Commission shall consider inadmissible any petition submitted under Article 25 which it considers incompatible with the provisions of the Present Convention, manifestly ill-founded, or an abuse of the right of petition”.
2. Arts. 28 and 31.
3. Yearbook on the European Convention of Human Rights vol. 13 p. 928.
4. Marckx V. Belgium no. 6833/74. European Commission of Human Rights Annual Review 1975 p. 27.
5. Decisions and Reports vol. I p. 54.
6. Collection of Decisions of the European Commission of Human Rights vol. 24 p. 20.
7. Report of the Commission p. 471.
8. Denmark v. Greece no. 3321/67; Norway v. Greece 3322/67; Sweden v. Greece 3323/67; Netherlands v. Greece 3344/67. Report of the Commission vol. II Part I.
9. Ibid. pp. 374–383.
10. Ibid. p. 423.
11. Rapport général Mai 1967 - Mars 1968 p. 19. Translation from French.
12. Ibid. p. 424–425.
13. Ibid. p. 394–402.
14. Yearbook vol. 13 p. 600.
15. Collection of Decisions of the European Commission of Human Rights vol. 44 p. 115.
16. Yearbook vol. 10 p. 382.
17. Collection of Decisions vol. 46 p. 112.
18. No. 5712/72 supra.
19. See in particular Case no. 2306/64 V. Austria (Collection of Decisions vol. 21 p. 23). Art. 176 of the Austrian Civil Code states that a person convicted to a prison sentence of more than one year loses paternal rights, therefore the applicant could not have his child visit him nor correspond with him.
20. Report of the Commission vol. II p. 411.
21. Ibid. p. 423.
22. Yearbook vol. 14 p. 352.
23. See n. 25 and 26.
24. Collection of Decisions vol. 12 p. 61.
25. Collection of Decisions vol. 36 p. 66.
26. Vampel V. Austria n. 8.
27. Yearbook vol. 13 p. 780.
28. Report of the Commission vol. II p. 1.
29. Collected Edition of the ‘Travaux Préparatoires’ vol. I p. 116–117.
30. The Greek Case Report of the Commission p. 417.
31. Yearbook vol. 14 p. 250.
32. Report of the Commission p. 14.
33. Report of the Commission p. 472.
34. Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights p. 60.
35. Report of the Commission p. 401.
36. P. 57 of the Court's judgment.
37. The Greek Case. Report of the Commission p. 414–415 and p. 421.
38. See pp. 409–445 of the Commission's Report.
39. Ibid. p. 399.
40. Ibid. pp. 449–450.
41. Ibid. pp. 451–2.
42. Yearbook vol. II p. 1020.
43. Ibid. p. 1028.
44. Report of the Commission p. 463.
45. Supra n. 33.
46. Ibid.
47. Report of the Commission p. 495.
48. Article 2.2(c) of the Convention - see n. 50.
49. Report of the Commission p. 496.
50. Supra n. 47.
51. Collection of Decisions vol. 30 p. 56.
52. See also case no. 4065/69 V. Germany (detainee forced into an isolation cell) and no. 4149/69 (forced into a prison bus).
53. Report of the Commission p. 423.
54. Ibid. pp. 395–399 and 409–413.
55. p. 56 of the judgment.
56. See Ireland v. United Kingdom. Report of the Commission pp. 389–391.
57. Ibid. p. 496.
58. See n. 50.
59. Ibid. Article 2(1).
60. Report of the Commission p. 497.
61. Collection of Decisions vol. 46 p. 128.
62. Supra, text to n. 32.
63. Report of the Commission vol. II p. 1.
64. Report of the Commission p. 402.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Ireland v. United Kingdom. Report of the Commission p. 463.
68. Ibid. P. 57 of the judgement.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid. pp. 84–86.
71. Ibid. p. 91.
72. Ibid. p. 118.
73. Ibid. p. 119.
74. Ibid. p. 106.
75. Ibid. P. 113.
76. The Greek case, report of the Commission p. 58–59.
77. Ibid. pp. 366–370.
78. Ibid. p. 364
79. Ibid. p. 367.
80. Supra text to n. 32.
81. Ireland v. United Kingdom. Report of the Commission pp. 440–442.
82. See also T.7, ibid. pp. 449–451 and 463.
83. See n. 37.
84. Ibid.
85. Collection of Decisions, vol. 24 p. 20.
86. Supra text to n. 36.
87. Report of the Commission in the East African Asian cases pp. 84–87.
88. Ibid.
89. Judgment of the Court p. 57.
90. Report of the Commission vol. II p. 13.
91. Ibid.
92. Report of the Commission vol. II pp. 12–13.
93. Ireland v. United Kingdom. Report of the Commission p. 384.
94. Ibid. p. 385.
95. Ibid. p. 470.
96. Ibid. p. 460.
97. Ibid. pp. 461–2.
98. Ibid. pp. 464–468.
99. Supra p. 43.
100. Judgment of the Court p. 56.
101. Report of the Commission vol. II p. 414.
102. Ireland v. United Kingdom. Report of the Commission p. 406.
103. Ibid. p. 426.
104. Ibid. pp. 418–419.
105. Supra n. 47.
106. Supra n. 57.
107. Ireland v. United Kingdom. Report of the Commission pp. 428–9.
108. Ibid. pp. 430–433.
109. See the case of T.16, ibid. pp. 440–442.
110. Ibid. pp. 415–421.
111. Ibid. p. 417–418.
112. See n. 90.
113. Report of the Commission p. 449–450.
114. Ibid. pp. 451–452.
115. Ibid. p. 452.
116. Ibid.
117. Ibid. pp. 451–2.
118. Ibid. p. 426.
119. See for example, n. 21.
120. Supra text to n. 66.
121. Supra n. 50.