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Suresh v. Canada (Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

Christina M. Cerna*
Affiliation:
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Formerly Principal Human Rights Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (retired December 31, 2011).

Abstract

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Copyright © 2017 by The American Society of International Law 

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ENDNOTES

1 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights art. 13, Dec. 16, 1966, S. Exec. Rep. 102–123, 999 U.N.T.S. 171; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Protocol No. 4, art. 3, Nov. 4, 1950, Europ. T.S. No. 5; 213 U.N.T.S. 221. The European Convention prohibits the expulsion of an individual or group of nationals and in Protocol No. 4, Article 4, prohibits the collective (not the individual) expulsion of aliens. American Convention on Human Rights art. 22 (6), Nov. 21, 1969, 1144 U.N.T.S. 143; African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights art. 12(4), June 27, 1981, 21 ILM 58.

2 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights art. 13, Dec. 16, 1966, S. Treaty Doc. No. 95-20, 6 ILM 368 (1967), 99 U.N.T.S. 171.

3 Othman (Abu Qatada) v. The United Kingdom, App. No. 8139/09, Eur. Ct. H.R. (May 9, 2012).

4 Suresh v. Canada, Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R., ¶¶ 26, 27, 93 (April 13, 2016).

5 Id. ¶ 119.

6 Id. ¶ 103.

7 Id. ¶ 98.

8 Suresh v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) 2017 FC 28, IMM-4483-15 (Jan. 10, 2017).

9 European Judges' Ruling on Abu Qatada ‘a Threat to Our National Security.’ The Telegraph, Feb. 7, 2012.

10 A clear example of how fraught with conflict the subject of the expulsion of aliens is can be seen in the work of the International Law Commission (ILC), which spent seven years (2005–2012) preparing “Draft Articles” on the protection of human rights of persons who have been or are being expelled. Then realizing that states have divergent national laws and regulations involving national security matters in this area, the ILC did not adopt the special rapporteur's initial proposal that the ILC suggest to the General Assembly that it recommend to states that the rules set forth in the draft articles be taken into account. See Sean D. Murphy, The Expulsion of Aliens (Revisited) and Other Topics, The Sixty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission, 109 AJIL 125 (2015).