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The Inter-American System of Human Rights and Transnational Inquiries

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This chapter examines the developments that the Inter-American System of Human Rights has established in relation of transnational inquiries. Though there is no case before the Inter-American Court concerning mutual legal assistance in criminal matters directly, this study focuses its attention on the interpretation of the due process rights that could be applicable in international cooperation specifically with regard to the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Fundamental Rights.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See IACtHR, 8 March 1998, Paniagua-Morales et al. v. Guatemala, Series C No. 37; 25 November 2000 ,Bámaca-Velásquez v. Guatemala, Series C No. 70.

  2. 2.

    See IACtHR, 29 July 1988, Velásquez-Rodríguez v. Honduras, Series C No. 4; 22 November 2005 Gómez-Palomino v. Peru, Series C No. 136; 12 August 2008, Heliodoro-Portugal v. Panama, Series C No. 186.

  3. 3.

    See IACtHR, 7 June 2003, Juan Humberto Sánchez v. Honduras, Series C No. 99; 8 July 2004 Gómez-Paquiyauri Brothers v. Peru, Series C No. 110.

  4. 4.

    IACtHR, 22 September 2006, Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay, Series C No. 153, §§ 127, 130 ff.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., § 132.

  6. 6.

    IACoHR, Annual Inform of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, § 37.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., § 38.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., § 44.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., § 40.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., § 42.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., § 40.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., § 36.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., § 37.

  14. 14.

    Dondé (2010), pp. 263 ff.

  15. 15.

    Ibid.

  16. 16.

    IACtHR, 30 January 1996, Castillo-Páez v. Peru, Series C No. 24, § 90.

  17. 17.

    IACtHR, 30 May 1999, Castillo-Petruzzi et al. v. Peru, Series C No. 52, § 154; 31 January 2001, Case of the Constitutional Court v. Peru, Series C No. 71, § 83; 2 February 2001, Baena-Ricardo et al. v. Panama, Series C No. 72, § 106.

  18. 18.

    IACtHR, 6 February 2001, Ivcher-Bronstein v. Peru, Series C No. 74, § 112; 2 September 2004, Case of the Juvenile Reeducation Institute v. Paraguay, Series C No. 112, § 230; 30 October 2008, Bayarri v. Argentina, Series C No. 187, § 61.

  19. 19.

    IACtHR, Case of the Juvenile Reeducation Institute v. Paraguay (footnote 18), § 230.

  20. 20.

    IACtHR, 19 November 1999, Villagrán-Morales et al.v. Guatemala, Series C No. 63, § 195.

  21. 21.

    Ibid., § 192 ff.

  22. 22.

    Ibid., § 194.

  23. 23.

    See IACtHR, 1 October 1999, Advisory Opinion OC 16/99, The Right to Information on Consular Assistance. In the Framework of the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law, Series A No. 16, § 76.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., § 117.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., § 119 (citations omitted).

  26. 26.

    IACtHR, 7 September 2004, Tibi v. Ecuador, Series C No. 114, § 111–115, 180; 22 November, 2005, Palamara-Iribarne v. Chile, Series C No. 135, §197, §§ 208–214.

  27. 27.

    IACtHR, 17 September 1999, Loayza-Tamayo v. Peru, Series C No. 33, §§ 66–77; 25 November 2004, Lori Berenson-Mejía v. Peru, Series C No. 119, §§ 201–209.

  28. 28.

    IACtHR, 22 November 2004 Carpio-Nicolle et al. v. Guatemala, Series C No. 117, §§ 130–135; 12 September 2005, Gutiérrez-Soler v. Colombia, Series C No. 132, §§ 98–99; 26 September 2006, Almonacid-Arellano et al. v. Chile, Series C No. 154, §§ 154 ff.

  29. 29.

    IACtHR, 16 August 2000, Durand and Ugarte v. Perú, Series C No. 68, §§ 116 ff.; 18 August 2000, Cantoral-Benavides v. Perú, Series C No. 69, § 114; 6 December 2001, Las Palmeras v. Colombia, Series C No. 90, § 50; 5 July 2004, Tradesmen v. Colombia, Series C No. 109, § 174; 23 November 2009, Radilla-Pacheco v. Mexico, Series C No. 209, §§ 271 ff.

  30. 30.

    IACtHR, Castillo-Petruzzi et al. v. Peru (footnote 17), § 141; Lori Berenson-Mejía v. Peru (footnote 27), § 167.

  31. 31.

    IACtHR, Castillo-Petruzzi et al. v. Peru (footnote 17), § 147.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., § 161.

  33. 33.

    Ibid., § 153.

  34. 34.

    IACtHR, Lori Berenson-Mejía v. Peru (footnote 27), § 184.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., § 185.

  36. 36.

    Art. 8(2)(f) ACHR (emphasis added).

  37. 37.

    IACtHR, Castillo-Petruzzi et al. v. Peru (footnote 17), § 143 ff. Where the Court insisted that an attorney need to be present from the time of detention, despite the fact that the American Convention allows persons accused of a crime to be their own council.

  38. 38.

    IACtHR, 20 June 2005, Fermín Ramírez v. Guatemala, Series C No. 126, §§ 92 ff.

  39. 39.

    See Tratado de Cooperación entre los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y los Estados Unidos de América sobre asistencia jurídica mutua (1990), Art. 1(5); Acuerdo de Cooperación en materia de asistencia jurídica entre el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y el Gobierno de la República de Colombia, Art. 4(2). See Bontekas and Nash (2007), p. 387.

  40. 40.

    IACtHR, 8 September 1983, Advisory Opinion OC 3/83, Restrictions to the Death Penalty [Arts. 4(2) and 4(4) ACHR], Series A No. 3, § 56.

  41. 41.

    IACtHR, 27 November 2008, Valle-Jaramillo et al. v. Colombia, Series C No. 192, § 155.

  42. 42.

    IACtHR, 24 June 2005, Acosta-Calderón v. Ecuador, Series C No. 129, § 106.

  43. 43.

    IACtHR, 15 June 2005, Moiwana Community v. Suriname, Series C No. 124, § 162.

  44. 44.

    IACtHR, 22 September 2009, Anzualdo-Castro v. Peru, Series C No. 202, § 157.

  45. 45.

    IACtHR, Tradesmen v. Colombia (footnote 29), § 203; 3 April 2009, Kawas-Fernández v. Honduras, Series C No. 196, § 113.

Abbreviations

ACHR:

American Convention on Human Rights

ECtHR:

European Court of Human Rights

IACoHR:

Inter-American Commission of Human Rights

IACtHR:

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Dondé-Matute, J. (2013). The Inter-American System of Human Rights and Transnational Inquiries. In: Ruggeri, S. (eds) Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32012-5_6

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