(US Court of Appeals) ‘the torturer has become like the pirate and the slave trader before him, hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind’.
Citations:
(1980) 630 F 2d 876
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Mohamed, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 1) Admn 21-Aug-2008
The claimant had been detained by the US in Guantanamo Bay suspected of terrorist involvement. He sought to support his defence documents from the respondent which showed that the evidence to be relied on in the US courts had been obtained by . .
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Human Rights, International
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.272825
