Law an Torture: Among Police Defence against Threats and Penal Procecution
Contemporary law establishes important guarantees for citizens in order to prevent arbitrary behaviour by public authorities. The present article analyses the tension between torture and law with a real case from Germany, in which a kidnapper made a declaration with the threat of violence by police...
| Autor Principal: | ISELE, JORGE |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá-Colombia
2016
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http://revistas.usta.edu.co/index.php/iusta/article/view/3044 |
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Contemporary law establishes important guarantees for citizens in order to prevent arbitrary behaviour by public authorities. The present article analyses the tension between torture and law with a real case from Germany, in which a kidnapper made a declaration with the threat of violence by police officers. This case produced an intensive debate on the civil rights and liberties as well as the methods applied by the police in the obtaining of information. |
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