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Acknowledgments ...............................................................................................................6
Executive Summary . ............................................................................................................7
PART ONE
THE CHANCES AND CHALLENGES TO THE PREVENTION OF ILL-TREATMENT ARISING FROM
FRAMEWORK DECISIONS ON DETENTION .................................................................................. 11
Introduction . .....................................................................................................................12
Chapter 1.
The Council Framework Decisions related to detention: improving judicial cooperation ............ 16
1.1. Background ........................................................................................................................16
1.2. Mutual recognition ............................................................................................................17
1.3. Mutual trust .......................................................................................................................18
1.3.1. Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA on the European Arrest Warrant .................19
1.3.2. Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA on the Transfer of Prisoners .....................................21
1.3.3. Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA on probation and alternative sanctions ...................22
1.3.4. Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA on the European Supervision Order..........................23
Chapter 2.
The Framework Decisions on detention as challenges for the prevention of ill-treatment .......... 25
2.1. The prevention of ill-treatment and the principle of non-refoulement..............................27
2.1.2. Extradition and the principle of non-refoulement: ECtHR jurisprudence ..........................29
2.2. The EAW and challenges to the prevention of ill-treatment . ............................................31
2.2.1. Jurisprudence from the Court of Justice of the European Union . .....................................31
2.2.2. National practice.................................................................................................................35
2.3. The Transfer of Prisoners Framework Decision and challenges to the prevention of
ill-treatment........................................................................................................................44
2.4. Framework Decisions on detention as Challenges to the prevention of Ill-treatment:
Conclusions and Recommendations ..................................................................................48
Conclusions.........................................................................................................................48
Recommendations .............................................................................................................49
Chapter 3.
The Framework Decisions on detention as chances for the prevention of ill-treatment .............. 50
3.1. Alternatives to custody and the prevention of ill-treatment .............................................50
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