"Violation of a right to fair trial is not only a violation of fundamental right under our constitution but also violative of the internationally recognized human rights, " the commission said in a statement Thursday.
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"Since the end of the civil war, Lebanon has witnessed mass arbitrary political arrests and detention, torture and ill-treatment, violations of the right to fair trial, ( and ) an expansion of the number of offenses carrying the death penalty, " the report said.
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He has criticized the lack of judicial independence and arbitrary procedures that have systematically resulted in violations of the right to fair trial, and described Syria s multi-layered security apparatus which continues to detain people without arrest warrants and frequently refuses to disclose their whereabouts for weeks and sometimes months in effect forcibly disappearing them.
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If he manages to prove the violation of the article 3 of the European convention against torture and violation of the right to fair trial ( i . e . obtaining evidence by unacceptable means ) in the ECHR, then, in compliance with the court s decision, the verdict based on illegally obtained evidence should be reversed.
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This aspect of the decision establishes that, if a state holds information about an individual that can potentially be used in litigation in the future, and if the state refuses to make this information accessible in its " physical " form ( copy ), the state is violating the individual's right to fair trial under the European Convention.
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His reports have covered themes such as definitions of terrorism, the right to fair trial in terrorism cases, the impact of counter-terrorism measures on economic, social and cultural rights, the right to privacy in the age of counter-terrorism, the role of intelligence agencies and their oversight in counter-terrorism, and the identification of best practice in combating terrorism in full compliance with human rights.
