IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM LAW

Immigration and Asylum Law

Immigration and Asylum Law

The Statement

“It is not the function of Article 3 [ECHR] to provide minimum standards for criminal justice systems, protection from crime, and social support throughout the world.”

Discussion and Analysis

Torture is a serious violation of human rights, which the Amnesty International has been campaigning since the 1960s. Despite this, it is still a common problem also in Europe. In the majority of society are at risk of torture the poor and discriminated against. The foundation can also be warfare or punishment. Torture is a serious violation of human rights, which causes the victim of severe physical or mental pain, suffering and humiliation.

The purpose of torture is often the victim of punishment or intimidation, information or confession tightening. Anyone can be a victim of torture. Often, a victim of torture, however, is a politician, journalist, human rights defender, and a member of a minority or imprisoned person. Torture causes bodily injury to the victim and the pain by mental injuries such as post traumatic stress disorders, depression, and anxiety and memory problems. Symptoms may occur over long time to show (O'Boyle, 1977, pp. 674-706).

Torture is absolutely prohibited in all circumstances. This prohibition is derived from a number of human rights treaties, for example, the Finnish constitution. A number of EU countries have committed a breach of the prohibition of torture, for example by handing over people to countries where they have had a high risk of being subjected to torture. Torture does not eliminate terrorism, the more security in the world. On the contrary, brutalize, giving rise to human fear and hatred of the world, as well as to deepen the divide.

Under torture means the intentional infliction of physical pain, mental or physical suffering of a man by beating and torture or other violent acts which are contrary to his will. Torture cannot be performed even for the purpose of obtaining information, evidence or a confession, punishment for actions in which a person is suspected of having committed or not committed at all, and with the purpose of intimidating him or other persons. All this law is strictly prohibited. With regard to evidence obtained by torture in criminal proceedings, they are not considered valid for use because, as stated in the Constitution, nor any accusation cannot be based on evidence obtained by illegal means (Mowbray, 2004, pp. pp. 32-48).

Article 3 of the ECHR may likewise be ruptured on medicinal grounds where there is a complete nonattendance of medication, offices or social back in the single's home blue grass which might bring about passing or create intense physical or mental enduring. Other than the cases specified above, this Article can likewise have an association with instances of intense police savagery and underprivileged conditions in confinement.

The Court's law on Article 3 was first built in 1989 in association with a removal argument against the United Kingdom including a German national blamed for a capital offence in the United ...