英文摘要 |
Detention is the most drastic and irreversible interference of fundamental rights with the defendant's right to personal freedom before a definitive judgement, so the state abuses the detention, and the defendant's right to personal freedom will suffer great harm. Therefore, the constitutions of various countries and the international conventions not only stipulate and declare the right to personal freedom, but also strive to regulate more detailed the detention requirements, reasons, execution and the right to claim compensation, trying to reconcile the tension between the detention and the right to personal freedom. A consummate detention system not only reduces the impact on the right to personal freedom, but also indirectly protects the right to personal freedom through institutional regulations. In this regard, Art. 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is the most representative article, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has clarified the standards provided by this article through a large number of judgments, gradually shaping a more ideal detention system, which has a great reference value for Taiwan. The goal of this study is Art. 5 of the ECHR and compare it with the detention law of Taiwan. The text is divided into two parts for the further discussion. The first part focused on the interpretation of Art. 5 of the ECHR and the analysis of relevant court judgments, which included the reasons for detention in para. 1 subs. (c), special procedural guarantees for persons deprived of liberty in para. 3, general procedural guarantees for persons deprived of liberty in para. 2 and 4, and the right to claim damages in para. 5. A detailed and thorough statement of all the detention regulations with respect to Art. 5 is addressed in the first part of this article. In the section that followed, it took Art. 5 of the ECHR as the reference to compare to the detention system in Taiwan in various norms and standards. It covered the right to personal liberty guaranteed in Art. 8 of the Constitution of Taiwan and the essential elements of detention in Art. 101 of Taiwan Code of the Criminal Procedure, as well as the relevant regulations such as the right to access to case files during investigations and the disposition of alternative detention. Additionally, the maximum duration of detention in Art. 5 of the Criminal Speedy Trial Act of Taiwan and the right to claim compensation for the damages due to unlawful detention in Art. 1 and 2 of the Criminal Compensation Act of Taiwan are also elaborated and compared to Art. 5 of the ECHR in this part. In other words, a complete review of the detention system in Taiwan based on Art. 5 of the ECHR is presented in the second half of this article. At the end, on the foundation of the comparison between the ECHR and Taiwan's detention system, the article has proposed concrete legislative suggestions for the legislators. |