Règle correspondante
Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 100. Fair Trial Guarantees
Section M. Right to appeal
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides: “Any prisoner of war has the right, under the same conditions as the members of the armed forces of the [Detaining Power], to make an appeal against any sentence pronounced against him.”
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, § 2.087.
The manual further provides that the “proceedings shall foresee the right to appeal for the persons [placed in assigned residence or interned]”.
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, § 5.008(2).
With respect to occupied territory, the manual states:
Any sentenced person has the possibility to use the recourse prescribed in the legislation which applies to the tribunal … If the legislation which applies to the tribunal does not foresee possibilities of appeal, the sentenced/convicted person shall have the right to appeal the sentence in front of the competent authority of the Occupying Power.
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(4).
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] the following rights and guarantees, in addition to 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:
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e) To appeal to a superior body against any decision affecting him or her.
Argentina, Law on the Protection of Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights, 2005, Article 27(e).
