Recenti sviluppi in materia di diritto alla libertà e alla sicurezza personale: il "General Comment No. 35" del Comitato dei diritti umani

On 28 October 2014, after extensive consultations started in 2012, the Human Rights Committee finally adopted General Comment No. 35 on Article 9 of the ICCPR on the right to liberty and security of persons. This paper stresses that, notwithstanding some significant improvements over the previous General Comment (General Comment No. 8: Article 9 (Right to Liberty and Security of Persons), 30 June 1982, UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/rev.6, at 130 ff.), several important issues still need to be addressed in a clear unambiguous way, such as the question as to whether security detentions ought to be considered as arbitrary and that of the relationship between Article 9 and the applicable rules of International Humanitarian Law during international and non-international armed conflicts.