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Abstract
The author discusses the question of whether enforcement agents may urge the plea of necessity to escape criminal responsibility for their use of torture against suspected terrorists who may have planted a bomb likely to kill dozens of innocent civilians. While the Israeli Supreme Court held that such defence is admissible under these circumstances, some human-rights monitoring bodies went so far as to require states expressly to rule out necessity as an available defence to charges of torture. However, under international criminal law, the defence seems to be available even with regard to charges of torture. To solve this apparent conflict between the stand taken by the relevant human-rights monitoring bodies and international criminal law, the author maintains that the defence of necessity is not available in the case of acts of interrogational torture because, in the circumstances under discussion (also called 'the ticking-bomb situation'), two requisite elements of necessity are lacking. First, the person subjected to torture is not (or, at least, is not supposed to be) innocent and, secondly, and more importantly, the prohibited act performed (torture) does not necessarily and ineluctably avert the imminent danger to life and limb, because the suspected terrorist may not have the information, or may not have the right information, or may remain silent. The author then suggests some solutions for the possible improvement of the current legal regulation. Copyright Oxford University Press 2004. 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Journal of International Criminal Justice – Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 1, 2004