Anti-Torture Initiative

Day 3: Evidence tainted by torture in law and practice – Challenges, encouraging developments and the role of civil society organisations Welcome to Day 3! During the Online Discussion, taking place in the week of 21-25 February 2022, we will publish the written contributions of a number of renowned experts on selected topics concerning the inadmissibility of evidence tainted by torture. We recommend visiting the Online Discussion pag...

📢 Day 2: ONLINE DISCUSSION "INADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE TAINTED BY TORTURE"
Today on our Exchange Plantform you can read:
👉Rupert Skilbeck, REDRESS (Redress) “Excluding confessions obtained by torture”
👉Catherine Kent, IBAHRI, “Implementing the exclusionary rule: procedural aspects, the role of the legal profession and national law, policy and practice”
Join us here – > https://bit.ly/AoTDay2
📍 In the week from 21 to 25 February, together with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (Osce Odihr ), we will publish every day contributions of experts and discuss how to better ensure that evidence obtained by torture is not used in legal proceedings.
For more information > https://bit.ly/3HRTEfN

📢 ONLINE DISCUSSION "INADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE TAINTED BY TORTURE"
Today you can read:
👉Nikolaos Sitaropoulos, Council of Europe, Department for the Ex*****on of Judgments of the ECtHR, “Unfair trial due to torture-tainted evidence - European Court of Human Rights’ judgments and their execution”
👉 Ilze Tralmaka, Fair Trials, “Reducing reliance on torture evidence”
Join us here – > https://bit.ly/AoTDay1

In the week from 21 to 25 February, together with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) we will publish every day contributions of experts and discuss how to better ensure that evidence obtained by torture is not used in legal proceedings.
For more information > https://bit.ly/3HRTEfN

Lea la carta al Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador de la ATI y recomendando la modificación del Artículo Tercero, numeral II del Acuerdo que se publicó el 25 de agosto en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.

En la carta, recomendamos que el Acuerdo admita el uso de cualquier tipo de prueba para acreditar los alegatos de tortura u otros malos tratos; que cobije a todas las víctimas de tortura, no sólo a aquellas de las que se extraiga una confesión auto-incriminatoria, que enfatice que el Estado tiene la obligación de investigar dichos alegatos, que exalte el rol de jueces y juezas en la valoración de la prueba y que se disponga la exclusión del proceso de toda prueba obtenida ilícitamente y que – en ausencia de otras pruebas legítimas que justifiquen la detención – se ordene la liberación de las personas que fueron torturadas..