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The European Court of Human Rights: Al-Saadoon & Mufdhi v. United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Christiane Bourloyannis-Vrailas
Christiane Bourloyannis-Vrailas*
Affiliation:
Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
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International Legal Materials , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , June 2010 , pp. 762 - 815
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the European Court of Human Rights website (visited May 26, 2010) http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Case-Law/HUDOC/HUDOC+database/.

1 European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Nov. 4, 1950, 213 U.N.T.S. 222, Eur. T.S. No. 5, available at http://www.echr.coe.int.

2 Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention Concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty, opened for signature Apr. 28, 1983, Euro. T.S. No. 114 (entered into force Mar. 1, 1985).

3 See, e.g., Parl. Assemb. Res. 1044 (Oct. 4, 1994) & 1097 (June 28, 1996), available at http://www.echr.coe.int.

4 Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention Concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty in All Circumstances, opened for signature May 3, 2002, Eur. T.S. No. 187 (entered into force July 1, 2003).

5 See, e.g., William, A. Schabas, The Abolition Of The Death Penalty In International Law (3d ed. 2002)Google Scholar (explaining that these developments in Europe are part of a wider growing trend towards abolition of capital punishment at the universal level, which have however no direct bearing on the case under consideration).

6 See, e.g., Alastair, Mowbray, The Creativity of the European Court of Human Rights, 5 Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 57 (2005)Google Scholar (discussing the Court’s practice in this regard).

7 Soering v. United Kingdom, 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) (1989), reprinted in 28 I.L.M. 1063 (1989), ¶¶ 102-103. The judgments and other decisions of the European Court of Human Rights are available at http://www.echr.coe.int.

8 Öcalan v. Turkey, App. No. 46221/99 Eur. Ct. H.R. (2005), reprinted in 44 I.L.M. 1058 (2005), ¶ 163.

9 See William, A. Schabas, Indirect Abolition: Capital Punishment’s Role in Extradition Law and Practice , 25 Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 581 (2003)Google Scholar.

10 Soering, 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶¶ 104, 111.

11 Bader & Kanbor v. Sweden, App. No. 13284/04 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Nov. 8, 2005), ¶¶ 47-48.

12 In Al-Saadoon&Mufdhi paragraph 89 (decision on admissibility, Eur. Ct. H.R. June 30, 2009), the Court rejected the argument by the U.K. government that the applicants had in fact not been under its jurisdiction at the time of the transfer.