Eveline Thoonen

Radboud University | RU · Faculty of Law

Op 19 juli 1998 werd de 18-jarige Moravia Ramsahai neergeschoten door een agent van de Amsterdamse regiopolitie. Korte tijd later overleed hij. De uitspraak van het Europese Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens (EHRM) over het onderzoek naar dit overlijdensgeval, waarin tekortkomingen in het onderzoek werden vastgesteld, was een van de aanleidingen voor...

The European Convention on Human Rights requires states to protect the life of detainees and to investigate police custody deaths. Investigations into these deaths are not only necessary in the individual case but can also be important in preventing future deaths. Examination of multiple police custody deaths over a number of years provides the pos...

The European Convention on Human Rights requires states to protect the life of detainees and to investigate police custody deaths. Investigations into these deaths are not only necessary in the individual case but can also be important in preventing future deaths. Examination of multiple police custody deaths over a number of years provides the pos...

The European Court of Human Rights has derived several obligations from the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with regard to suicide prevention among detainees and the investigation after a suicide has occurred in detention. We performed a study on case files on suicides in detention. In this article, w...

Thorough investigation of deaths related to police actions or of persons placed under the 'care' of governmental authorities is anchored in the legal systems of every democratic system. The quality of this investigation should be guarded by an adequate set of control measures. Recently the Dutch Ombudsman published a report about this issue In the...

De suicides in detentie in Nederland van 2005-2010 zijn geëvalueerd.