The Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights and its Impact on the Definition of the Language Assistance as a Fundamental Right of the Third-Country Nationals
Keywords:
fundamental human rights, third-country nationals, language assistance, procedural safeguards, detention, intercultural communicationAbstract
The paper focuses on the specific aspects of the provision of language assistance to the third-country nationals arriving into the territory of the European Union. Being defined as one of the fundamental human rights, particularly within the criminal proceedings, language mediation is provided across the EU Member States in various ways. Different approaches are presented from the perspective of the European Court of Human Rights Judgments related to the violation of Article 5 §2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Based on the European Court of Human Rights Case-Law, the author presents possible solutions to the remaining challenges faced by the EU Member States when providing the language assistance to third-country nationals arriving into the territory of the EU.
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BRANNAN, J. (2010) ECHR case-law on the right to language assistance in criminal proceedings and the EU response available online at: e-justice.europa.eu/4_BrannanECHRcaselaw_EU_en%20(1).pdf
Case of Abdolkhani and Karimnia v. Turkey, Judgment of 22 September 2008, No. 30471/08 available online at: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-94127%22]}
Case of Conka v. Belgium, Judgment of 5 February 2002, No. 51564/99 available online at: https://www.asylumlawdatabase.eu/en/content/ecthr-%C4%8Donka-v-belgium-application-no-5156499-5-february-2002
Case of Hermi v. Italy, Judgment No. 18114/02 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Husain v. Italy, Judgment No. 18913/03 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Kaboulov v. Ukraine, Judgment of 19 November 2009, No. 41015/04 available online at: http://echr.ketse.com/doc/41015.04-en-20091119/view/
Case of Ladent v. Poland, Judgment No. 11036/03 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Lazoroski v. the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Judgment No. 4922/04 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Leva v. Moldova, Judgment No. 12444/05 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Nechiporuk and Yonkalo v. Ukraine, Judgment No. 42310/04 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Nowak v. Ukraine, Judgment No. 60846/10 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Rusu v. Austria, Judgment of 2 October 2008, No. 34082/02 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Case of Saadi v the United Kingdom decided by the Grand Chamber in Strasbourg, Judgment of 29 January 2008 available online at: http://echr.ketse.com/doc/13229.03-en-20080129/view/
Case of Shamayer and others v. Georgia and Russia, Judgment No. 36378/02 available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/echr/en/hudoc
Directive 2010/64/EU on the Right to Interpretation and Translation in Criminal Proceedings available online at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32010L0064
European Court of Human Rights Judgments
ICCPR General Comment No. 08: Right to liberty and security of persons. UN OHCHR. 30 June 1982. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
NIKOLAJOVÁ KUPFERSCHMIDTOVÁ, E. (2020) The Case-Law Shaping the Right of the Third-Country Nationals for the Language Assistance. In: Kosice Security Revue, Vol. 10, No. 1/2020. ISSN1338-6956.
NORSTRÖM, E. (2010) Community Interpreting in Sweden and its Significance to guaranteeing legal and medical security. Available online at: http://sens-public.org/articles/781/
NOVÁKOVÁ, I. et al. (2018) Interkultúrna komunikácia so štátnymi príslušníkmi tretích krajín v útvaroch policajného zaistenia pre cudzincov: Projekt. /Rieš. výsk. úl. Iveta Nováková, spolurieš. Martina Binderová, spolurieš. Petra Ferenčíková, spolurieš. Emil Semjan,, spolurieš. Patrik Ambrus, spolurieš. Jelena Ondrejkovičová, spolurieš. Klaudia Marczyová. [a i.]. 1. vyd. – Bratislava: Akadémia PZ – K jazykov, 2018. – 39 1.: dokumentácia 11 1. Vto
Return Handbook available online at: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/european-agenda-migration/proposal-implementation-package/docs/return_handbook_en.pdf
The European Convention on Human Rights available online at: https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
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