The court referred to ‘the fundamental importance of the guarantees contained in Article 5 for securing the right of individuals in a democracy to be free from arbitrary detention at the hands of the authorities’ and to the need to interpret narrowly any exception to ‘a most basic guarantee of individual freedom.’
Enforced disappearance is a violation of article 5 of the European Human Rights Convention in the case of persons within the jurisdiction of a Convention state
Citations:
[1998] ECHR 44, 24276/94, (1998) 27 EHRR 373, (1999) 27 EHRR 373, [1998] HRCD 576, 5 BHRC 1
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Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights 5
Jurisdiction:
Human Rights
Cited by:
Cited – A v Secretary of State for the Home Department, and X v Secretary of State for the Home Department HL 16-Dec-2004
The applicants had been imprisoned and held without trial, being suspected of international terrorism. No criminal charges were intended to be brought. They were foreigners and free to return home if they wished, but feared for their lives if they . .
Cited – Austin and Another v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis HL 28-Jan-2009
Movement retsriction was not Liberty Deprivation
The claimants had been present during a demonstration policed by the respondent. They appealed against dismissal of their claims for false imprisonment having been prevented from leaving Oxford Circus for over seven hours. The claimants appealed . .
Cited – Belhaj and Another v Straw and Others SC 17-Jan-2017
The claimant alleged complicity by the defendant, (now former) Foreign Secretary, in his mistreatment by the US while held in Libya. He also alleged involvement in his unlawful abduction and removal to Libya, from which had had fled for political . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Human Rights
Updated: 14 June 2022; Ref: scu.165628
