Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v Senegal)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16764802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S Shah (0000-0002-3814-1269), Syed Faisal Shah (0000-0003-4874-6509, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-366 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Rights Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-7781 • E-ISSN: 1744-1021 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hrlr/ngt012 |
| OpenAlex | W2044436712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The desire to prosecute Hissène Habré for crimes of torture committed during his eight year presidency of Chad has led to a stream of national and international litigation. Habré, who has taken refuge in neighbouring Senegal since being ousted from office in December 1990, has been linked to systematic acts of torture, murders and disappearances during his time as president. A Chadian National Commission of Inquiry, established by the Ministry of Justice after Habré was deposed,1 found that there were ‘more than 40,000 victims’ of Habré’s regime. Methods of torture used by the regime included subjecting detainees to forced swallowing of water, spraying of gas into the nose and mouth, forced ingestion of exhaust pipe fumes, burns, prolonged ‘cohabitation with corpses ... [in] an advanced stage of decomposition’, food and water deprivation, flogging and electric shocks.2 Furthermore, a method known as the ‘Arbatachar’ binding, which ‘consists of tying the two arms to the back, pulling the cord until the two elbows are almost touching behind the prisoner and his chest is thrust out as far as it can go’, was practised for long periods of time leading to the loss of use of arms and deformities.3 It is no wonder then that there has been a battle led by alleged victims of the regime to see Habré brought before a court to answer for these acts of torture and other extreme violations of human rights.
Criminology · Human rights · Political science · Sociology · Torture · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2019 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |