FYROM responsible for torture, ill-treatment and secret rendition of a man suspected of terrorist ties In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of El-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (application no. 39630/09), which is final1, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of […]

El-Masri, a German man who says he was snatched by the CIA in FYROM and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan, after being mistaken for a terrorism suspect, begun a legal battle against FYROM. El-Masri demands official recognition and a compensation of €50,000 ($69,000) according to reports for his ordeal. According to his own testimony in an article found […]