FYROM responsible for Torture, Ill-treatment and secret Rendition of Khaled el-Masri

FYROM responsible for torture, ill-treatment and secret rendition of a man suspected of terrorist ties.

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of El-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (application no. 39630/09), which is final1, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights on account of the inhuman and degrading treatment to which Mr El-Masri was subjected while being held in a hotel in Skopje, on account of his treatment at Skopje Airport, which amounted to torture, and on account of his transfer into the custody of the United States authorities, thus exposing him to the risk of further treatment contrary to Article 3; a violation of Article 3 on account of the failure of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” to carry out an effective investigation into Mr El-Masri’s allegations of ill-treatment;

violations of Article 5 (right to liberty and security) on account of his detention in the hotel in Skopje for 23 days and of his subsequent captivity in Afghanistan, as well as on account of the failure to carry out an effective investigation into his allegations of arbitrary detention; a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life); and, a violation of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).

Read the rest of FYROM’s violations announced by the the European Court of Human Rights: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/webservices/content/pdf/003-4196815-4975517

Source: history-of-macedonia