Confession Under Torture
am 09.07.2008 von http://www.recht.us/amlawMJW - Washington. On June 30, 2008, a decision in one of the most controversial cases in recent German criminal history was delivered. The judgment came from the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, in Strasbourg in the case of Gäfgen v. Germany, application no. 22978/05. In late 2002, Gäfgen kidnapped and suffocated a boy. Upon the defendants arrest, the police believed the boy still to be alive. When he first would not disclose the boys whereabouts, the local deputy chief of police instructed the interrogating officer to tell Gäfgen he would suffer considerable pain unless he disclosed the boys location. Gäfgen then confessed killing the boy and hiding the corpse. The Frankfurt Regional Court, Landgericht, convicted him of murder and other felonies and sentenced him to life. After failed appeals to German courts contesting the use of evidence obtained through torture, Gäfgen took the case to the ECHR. The decision emphasizes the importance of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Art. 3 prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The EHCR holds that even in the event of a public emergency threatening the life of a nation, no exceptions or derogations are permissible. In light of the threat that caused …
EGMR im Fall Gäfgen
Jurabilis / Es war einer der ganz großen Fälle der letzten Jahre, der sowohl die Republik als auch die Rechtswissenschaften durchrüttelte: Der Kindermörder Gäfgen und die durch ihn angestoßene Folterdebatte. Diesen Montag will der Europäische Gericht…
Magnus Gaefgen - Prozess
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Das Urteil ist nun rechtskräftig. Zur weiteren Berichterstattung rund um den Gaefgen-Prozess. Summary: I reported about the conviction of Magnus Gaefgen for kidnapping the eleven year old boy Jakob von Metzler in Frankfurt. The police tried t…
Violation of Consular Rights
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The ICJ LeGrand decision against the United States provided the German Supreme Court, Bundesgerichtshof, with an opportunity to explore the remedies available to compensate for evidence obtained from foreigners before they re…
Polizeivizepräsident wird wegen Folterandrohung...
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Zur Anklageerhebung und damit Strafverhandlung gegen den Frankfurter Polizeivizepräsidenten Wolfgang Daschner bei hr-online: Hessen. Es geht um Folterandrohung im Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Magnus Gäfgen. Summary: Link to a report about a…
The Torture Warrant
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / by Jonathan Myerson, based on true events that occurred in 2002. The man the police have in custody refuses to divulge the whereabouts of his kidnap victim, a boy probably now dying from starvation and exposure. But the clock is ticking. Under such…
Adversarial Hearing
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe applied the rules of the Human Rights Convention to German criminal procedure in lifting a criminal conviction based on a non-adversarial interrogation of a witness. In an investigative…
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