The Right to know the truth in the light of the right to privacy: the case of victims of the communist regime in Europe
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2017 |
The right to know the truth is established as one of the rights constituting the right to effective remedy but in post-Communist countries this right is limited to victims of the Communist regime because of failure to access the files of former secret services on two different grounds: certain victim’s information is protected as personal data on the grounds of privacy rights and certain files are still kept as a classified information. Thus, the article analyses if such limitations in post- Communist countries are compatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The answer is provided using mainly an analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Lithuania as a case study was chosen for the analysis in a situation where certain files are kept as classified information.
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Journal | Cite Score | SNIP | SJR | Year | Quartile |
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Baltic Journal of European Studies | 0.5 | 0.314 | 0.199 | 2017 | Q2 |