La protección de los demandantes de asilo por razón de su vulnerabilidad especial en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos

Morgades Gil, Sílvia

La protección de los demandantes de asilo por razón de su vulnerabilidad especial en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos

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Morgades Gil S. La protección de los demandantes de asilo por razón de su vulnerabilidad especial en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo. 2010;37:801-42.

Abstract

Asylum Seekers constitute a group of persons with a special vulnerability because they are aliens, they do not benefit from the protection of the State of their nationality and they are in search of a protection of substitution. The European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged this special vulnerability, either individually or in conjunction with other circumstances, in order to modulate its jurisprudence concerning some rights enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). The asylum seeker’s quality of victims has been essential to the interpretation of article 3 of the ECHR that deems forbidden certain measures of removal from the territory and unacceptable the material conditions under which in some cases detention in international zones of airports takes place. This quality has been decisive as well to the interpretation of article 5 of the ECHR that allows for the consideration of certain measures that restrict freedom of persons before they are admitted into the territory of one country as detention measures. Finally, the asylum’s seekers quality has been equally important to the interpretation of article 13 in that concerning the requirement for legal systems to provide a remedy with automatic suspensive effect of the removal from the territory of the asylum seekers in cases where there is a risk of violation of rights enshrined in the ECHR in the destination country.