A Comparative Study of the Inter-American and the European Courts of Human Rights
Introduction
Between March 2002 and July 2004, eight individuals of Chechen origin were “arrested by groups of armed and masked men in a manner resembling a security operation” (ECtHR, 2013, para. 6). Pointing guns at the family members, the soldiers took men away in military carriers without any explanation. On April 28, 1991, Jeremías Osorio Rivera was officially detained by a military patrol when he went to the village of Nunumia to take part in a sports event (IACtHR, 2013, para. 68). He was accused of making a terrorist threat for carrying an officially registered gun.
