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Article: European Court of Human Rights Reaffirms the Absolute Prohibition on Return to Torture
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 28, 2008
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
(Strasbourg) - The European Court of Human Rights today reaffirmed that the ban on deporting people to countries where they are at risk of torture or ill-treatment is absolute and unconditional. The judgment in Saadi v. Italy is being hailed as a major reassertion of the importance of the rule of law by 11 international human rights groups, including Amnesty International, the Association for the Prevention of Torture, the AIRE Centre, Human Rights Watch, INTERIGHTS, the International Commission of Jurists, JUSTICE, the Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture, Open Society Justice Initiative, REDRESS, and the World ...