Document Type : Article

Author

Assistan Professor, Law Department, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

Abstract

The European Convention on Human Rights describes prohibition of torture as an absolute right and in recent years the European Court of Human Rights has interpreted the expulsion of foreigners in the framework of that principle. But in these cases, the Court mitigates its point of view and doesn't apply an absolute parameter. In this research with an analytical-descriptive method, we’ll try to answer the following question: why in international law a right (prohibition of torture) is assessed as absolute, but in practice for foreigners the same principle is limited? At the end, we’ll prove that without a relativist interpretation of the Court, the sovereignty of European States about the expulsion of foreigners would be limited and this would entail negative economic consequences. Furthermore, without this interpretation, there would be problems also for the security of Europe. But this point of view raises criticism, because there is a duality in the Court jurisprudence: an absolute principle from a theoretical point of view becomes relative in the reality.

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  1. فارسی

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  5. A) Books
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