Win for 'Carlos the Jackal'
2005-01-27 19:58
Strasbourg - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that France had failed to give Venezuelan guerrilla leader Illich "Carlos the Jackal" Ramirez Sanchez proper legal recourse against his solitary confinement, but said it did not constitute inhumane treatment.
The court ordered the French authorities to pay Carlos $6 500 for his court costs.
He successfully argued that he had not been allowed to contest his solitary confinement - which lasted from August 1994 to October 2002 - before a French court, in violation of a clause in the European Convention on Human Rights, to which France adheres.
Carlos is serving a life term in a prison in the Parisian suburb of Fresnes for a triple murder committed in the French capital in 1975.
- AFP