CYIL 2010

PAVEL BUREŠ

CYIL 1 ȍ2010Ȏ

4. Conclusion The aim of this article was to show, on the example of the rights of persons during an investigation, that the level of protection of human rights before the International Criminal Court is much more developed and higher than in provisions of international instruments of both universal and regional character or in the statutes of ad hoc international tribunals. This higher standard of protection can be seen especially in case of the “general” rights of persons during an investigation. The rights of suspected persons are a subject matter for other analysis and were not treated in this article, although they constitute a sort of second level of the basic-general level of rights of persons during an investigation. In the case of all of the examined rights, i.e. the right not to be compelled to testify, not to be subjected to coercion, the right to an interpreter and the right not to be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention, the level of protection is higher even though there are certain problems ensuing from this broader conception of such rights that could cause difficulties in interpretation.

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