Relatively Absolute? The Undermining of Article 3 ECHR in Ahmad v UK

The recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Ahmad v UK dangerously undermines the well‐established case law of the Court on counter‐terrorism and non‐refoulement towards torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. Although ostensibly rejecting the ‘relativist’ approach to Article 3 ECHR adopted by the House of Lords in Wellington v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Court appeared to accept that what is a breach of Article 3 in a domestic context may not be a breach in an extradition or expulsion context. This statement is difficult to reconcile with the jurisprudence constante of the Court in the last fifteen years, according to which Article 3 ECHR is an absolute right in all its applications, including non‐refoulement, regardless of who the potential victim of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment is, what she may have done, or where the treatment at issue would occur.     

Issue-Based Strategies in Election Campaigns: The Case of Health Care in the 2000 Canadian Federal Election

This article explores the myriad uses of television drama in mediated political discourse using the case study of 24, Fox's counterterrorism drama. It examines references to 24 in articles and columns of nine major daily newspapers, magazines, and political Web sites from 2001 to 2007 and demonstrates how the show was invoked to support and express different political opinions, how political identity and media preferences were reconciled, and how different categories of use interacted with different political allegiances, as well as different assumptions about the ontological and epistemological status of the show. The study shows that while, at one level, fictional events and characters can function in political discourse in similar ways to nonfictional people and events, the “ontological openness” of politically relevant fictional texts serves as a resource for political discourse that is not readily available through nonfiction media texts. Finally, this article is an attempt to revisit and develop the concept of inter-textuality as a way to account for the complex interactions within the contemporary media environment, analyze media-related practices beyond direct viewing experiences, and bridge text-centered and audience-centered approaches to communication studies. Within this framework, journalists and political commentators are viewed as both mediators of other media texts for their audiences and as audiences in their own right who use these popular texts to negotiate and express their own identities and ideologies.     

“棰楚之下 何求不得”——刑讯逼供观念探究

刑讯逼供是公安机关在执法中难以治愈的顽症。它有悖于诉讼文明和司法民主的现代性要求,是依法治国、建设社会主义法治国家主旋律中的不和谐音符,既不利于打击犯罪也损害了司法公正。在国际社会反对酷刑、强化人权保障的今天,随着＂法治＂话语在我国刑事诉讼＂场域＂的不断展开,刑讯逼供已经成了一个＂不可忽视＂的问题。文章从关注公安民警的思想意识着手,分析了传统法律文化和思维哲学对其产生的消极影响,并在该基础上提出了相关的治理对策。     

Television TV by Barney Daniels Tjungurrayi

This paper examines the alliance that Derrida makes between his notion of justice as undeconstructible and a certain spirit of Marx's emancipatory promise. By following some of the precautions that Derrida undertakes in distinguishing the undeconstructibility of justice from the deconstructible justice should not be viewed as a contradiction in terms. I also argue that while the themes of justice, ethics, and politics can be rendered self‐present. Rather, Derrida's response to the injunctions of Marx suggests that it is precisely because justice and the emancipatory promise cannot be given over to the present that they are situated as undeconstructible. As such, taking responsibility for the heritage of Marxism involves working and sorting through the many spectres of Marx that inhabit the same injunction, where the promise remains as that yet to come.     

非法供述排除规则问题反思

被告人供述具有直接证据的属性,因其能为案件侦破提供丰富的证据线索而倍受侦查人员的重视。在现行司法体制和诉讼结构下,被告人供述证据的非法获得与使用滋生了严重的法律和社会问题。刑讯逼供泛滥、案卷笔录中心主义的法庭裁判模式等一系列问题导致了一批冤假错案的集中爆发,也催生了刑事诉讼法的再修改。但新修改的刑事诉讼法,仍是立足原有司法体制土壤中的技术革新,难以弥补体制本身的漏洞,实践中有关非法供述证据研究方向的偏离、相关举证责任倒置规定的流于形式都反映了非法供述证据在新刑诉时代仍将存在排除上的障碍。     

规范执法治刑讯逼供之“顽症“

本文针对我国公安工作中实际存在着的刑讯逼供这一“顽症” ,从客观现状出发 ,深入分析了这一“顽症”久治不愈 ,时而复发的原因 ,并从政治文明建设的高度 ,从保障人权出发 ,提出了“端正执法思想、转变执法观念”等六条治理刑讯逼供之“顽症”的对策 ,以达到“以人为本 ,规范执法”的目标     

刑讯逼供的社会学分析——兼谈刑讯逼供研究的拾漏补遗

有关刑讯逼供的理论研究成果颇丰，学者们从法学、经济学、心理学等视角，探讨了刑讯逼供的原因，并提出了对策，但实践中刑讯逼供仍屡有发生。可以引用社会学研究视角，对刑讯逼供的研究从关注其行为的“规范”性因素到“价值”性因素研究；从关注其行为的“单个性”到“互动性”的研究；从关注其行为的“违法性”到“攻击性”的研究；从关注侦查人员的“人权保障者”到“角色冲突”的研究；从关注刑讯逼供的“制度化控制”到“非制度化控制”研究。     

沉默权势在必行

中国已进入法治时代,国人正普遍关注“沉默权”能否在我国确立。我国已加入WTO,与世界政治、经济、文化的交往不断增多,法律上要与国际通行原则接轨,履行国际义务、遵守国际条约则是必然的。从履行国际义务、遵守国际条约的角度出发,实行沉默权亦是必然的。而沉默权作为公民的一种权利,用法制来保护民主权利是他们的心声,也是时代的召唤,社会的主旋。     

刑讯逼供对公安工作的危害及其防治措施

刑讯逼供是刑事侦查工作中的一个痼疾,它严重损害了公安队伍的形象,损害了社会主义民主和法制建设。刑讯逼供有历史根源,也有现实的原因,应采取多种措施加以预防。     

非法证据排除规则的实证研究——以法院处理刑讯逼供辩护为例

中国三个地区法院处理刑讯逼供辩护案件处理情况的调研结果表明,非法证据排除规则在司法实践中处于尴尬境地。其中有立法技术方面的原因,也有司法制度和价值观念层面的原因,因此,在完善非法证据排除规则上,不能仅限于证据规则层面的努力,而应该在更广阔的视野中进行改革,以推动相关配套制度的完善。