(Brussels Times) The court’s decision banning daily strip searches for those accused in the trial over the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels should be repealed, a lawyer for the Belgian state argued on Friday.
The judge previously ruled that the strip searches — which were daily and systematic — constituted degrading treatment and therefore violated the European Convention on Human Rights, adding that they did not seem justified in the light of all other security measures.
The Belgian state’s lawyer, however, disagreed.
“This is a trial that exceeds all known proportions on all counts,” the lawyer, Bernard Renson, said.
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