prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatments

State responsibility in the prevention of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment

Autor: Laurenţia Florentina GĂIŞTEANU (ŞTEFAN), Eliza ENE CORBEANU
Publicat în: Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2019
Disponibil online: aici.
Abstract: To produce intentional, systematic and cruel physical or mental suffering, acting on their own initiative or on the basis of order, in order to compel certain persons to confess or give information, was defined as torture. To put a person in serious danger through actions, measures or treatments of any kind, affecting physical or mental condition is inhuman and degrading treatment. The European Convention on Human Rights stated, with the overriding value, by the provisions of Article 3 [vezi tot]

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Overcrowding – current issues in Romanian detention centers. Causes, effects and remedies

Autor: Dorian CHIRIȚĂ
Publicat în: Challenges of the Knowledge Society 2019
Disponibil online: aici.
Abstract: The overcrowding phenomenon in detention centers generates serious issues with respect to the human dignity – corollary of the fundamental human rights. Both international legislation and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights relating to article 3 and 8 of the European Convention of the Human Rights address the issue of prison overcrowding, stating that this can lead to violation of fundamental human rights, causing severe physical and psychological trauma, which is aggravating as the prisoners spend more time in the [vezi tot]

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State responsibility in the prevention of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment

Overcrowding – current issues in Romanian detention centers. Causes, effects and remedies