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El Haski v. Belgium: Continued Debate on the (In)admissibility of Evidence Obtained through Ill-treatment

September 27, 2012

Earlier this week, the European Court of Human Rights released its judgment in El Haski v. Belgium, a case on the admissibility at a criminal trial of evidence potentially obtained through ill-treatment of third persons in a third State (Morocco). The ECtHR ruled that the Belgian authorities should have excluded the evidence from the trial. […]