Upholding the Prohibition of Torture: The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights

"Upholding the Prohibition of Torture: The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights." Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 42(2), pp. 259–260

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1 Manfred Nowak, Moritz Birk and Giuliana Monina (eds.), The United Nations Convention against Torture and Its Optional Protocol: A Commentary (OUP 2019); Nigel Rodley and Matt Pollard, The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (OUP 2011); Steven Dewulf, The Signature of Evil: (Re)Defining Torture in International Law (Intersentia 2011).

2 Amnesty International, Combating Torture: A Manual for Action (2016).

3 Metin Başoğlu (ed), Torture and Its Definition in International Law: An Interdisciplinary Approach (OUP 2017); Malcolm Evans and Jens Modvig (eds), Research Handbook on Torture: Legal and Medical Perspectives on Prohibition and Prevention (Elgar 2020).

4 These are namely: Ireland v. UK [1978] 5310/71; Selmouni v. France [1999] 25803/94; Aksoy v. Turkey [1996] 100/1995/606/694; Ilascu and Others v. Moldova and Russia [2004] 48787/99; Aydin v. Turkey [1997] 57/1996/676/866; Cestaro v. Italy [2015] 6884/11; Gäfgen v. Germany [2010] 22978/05, Soering v. UK [1989] 1/1989/161/217; El-Masri v. the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [2012] 39630/09.

5 Exemplary in this regard are Corina Heri, Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-Treatment and the ECtHR (Hart 2021), Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity, and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs (Hart 2021), Elaine Webster, Dignity, Degrading Treatment and Torture in Human Rights Law: The Ends of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Routledge 2018)

6 Dismissing as ‘speculation’, Michelle Farrell’s brilliant ‘The Marks of Civilisation: The Special Stigma of Torture’ [2021] 22 (1) Human Rights Law Review.