Autore: Napoletano, Nicola
Titolo: Extraordinary renditions, tortura, sparizioni forzate e "diritto alla verità": alcune riflessioni sul caso El-Masri
Periodico: Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 7 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 331 - Pagina finale: 364

On 13 December 2012, in the case El-Masri v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, theGrand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its first judgment onthe compatibility of the CIA extraordinary renditions programme with the European Conventionof Human Rights (ECHR). The ECtHR established, inter alia, that the extraordinary renditionsbear the special stigma of "torture" and are anathema to the rule of law and the values protected bythe Convention. Moreover, the ECtHR concluded that the investigations carried out by the respondentState into the alleged serious violations of human rights were inadequate and ineffectiveas they were not capable either of establishing the facts and the relevant circumstances of the caseor of leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible. Therefore, these investigationshad a negative impact on the prevention of impunity and on the "right to the truth" of theapplicant and his family, as well as of other victims of similar crimes and the general public. Firstly,this paper aims at examining the extraordinary renditions in the light of the ECHR, focusing on therights protected by articles 3 and 5 of the Convention. Secondly, it addresses the possibility of derivingthe "right to the truth" from the protection provided by the ECHR - more specifically, fromthe procedural obligations under Articles 2, 3 and 5 - for victims of serious violations of humanrights. For the purposes of this analysis, the paper takes into account: a) the recognition of the rightto the truth in several international instruments; b) the increasing attention on this right from internationalhuman rights monitoring bodies and special procedures mandate-holders; c) the contributionmade by the case-law of the regional human rights courts established by the American Conventionon Human Rights and by the ECHR.




SICI: 1971-7105(2013)7:2<331:ERTSFE>2.0.ZU;2-5
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