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Category:EthernetThe European Convention on Human Rights Committee has dismissed a complaint brought against France on behalf of two Algerian citizens, who were placed in administrative detention without trial for more than a year after their return from Libya.
The individuals were among 12 French citizens who were among about 150 people taken into custody following the November 2013 Paris attacks. They were put in an unofficial holding centre in the northern town of Calais.
While France later announced that they were not being charged with any crime, the two men from Algeria told Amnesty International that they were kept in custody for over 12 months and never informed of the charges against them.
On June 27, the two men lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, France. They were joined by three other individuals, two Algerians and one Swiss citizen.
On July 10, the Committee issued its judgment rejecting the complaint, finding that “no violation of the applicants’ rights under the Convention was established”.
The judgment states that the two Algerians were placed in a detention centre after returning from Libya “in connection with the search for persons who had been involved in terrorist activities in Libya”.
Neither the men nor the other complainants were given access to a lawyer during the period of detention and they were only informed after their release that they had been suspected of being “associates” of a “terrorist enterprise”.
The applicants argue that their detention and the conditions in which they were held violated their rights to liberty and to be treated in accordance with the law. They also contend that France violated Article 3 of the Convention, which requires governments to respect the right to life.
“As the applicants were not charged with any crime and thus the deprivation of their liberty was arbitrary, their detention was tantamount to a violation of their right to liberty,” the ruling said.
However, the Committee found that France had established that there had been “a legitimate aim” of protecting national security and that the measures taken had been “necessary in a democratic society”.
Since being released from prison, the two Algerians were held under house be359ba680
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