Related Rule
Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 100. Fair Trial Guarantees
Section A. General
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides that protected persons arrested on suspicion of performing acts prejudicial to the occupying power cannot be “deprived … of a fair and regular trial”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 4.003.
The manual further states that a “competent tribunal of the Occupying Power cannot impose any sentence without having proceeded to a regular trial”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 5.029(5).
With respect to non-international armed conflicts, the manual restates the provisions of common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 8.001.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) states that “depriving [a protected person] of his right to a regular and impartial trial” is a grave breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 8.03.
Argentina’s Law on the Protection of Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights (2005) states:
Article 27 (Minimum procedural guarantees. Guarantees in judicial or administrative proceedings)
In any judicial or administrative proceedings affecting children and adolescents, the governmental bodies shall guarantee [that children and adolescents enjoy] … all those rights provided for in the National Constitution [of Argentina], in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in international treaties ratified by the Argentine Nation and any laws promulgated in consequence of such treaties.
Argentina, Law on the Protection of Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights, 2005, Article 27.
