The Right to Know the Truth in the Light of the Right to Privacy: The Case of Victims of the Communist Regime in Europe

Baltic Journal of European Studies Pub Date : 2017-10-01 DOI:10.1515/bjes-2017-0019

Edita Gruodytė, Silvija Gervienė

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Abstract

Abstract 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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从隐私权看知情权——以欧洲共产主义政权受害者为例

摘要了解真相的权利被确立为构成有效补救权的权利之一，但在后共产主义国家，这一权利仅限于共产主义政权的受害者，因为有两个不同的理由无法查阅前特勤局的档案：某些受害者的信息因隐私权和某些文件仍然作为机密信息保存。因此，文章分析了后共产主义国家的这种限制是否符合《欧洲人权公约》第8条。答案主要是通过对欧洲人权法院判例法的分析得出的。选择立陶宛作为案例研究，对某些档案作为机密信息保存的情况进行分析。

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期刊介绍： Baltic Journal of European Studies (abbreviation BJES) is a semiannual double blind peer-reviewed international research journal (formerly known as Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies) with an international editorial office and extensive international editorial board, abstracted in EBSCO and other relevant databases.The scope of the journal comprises a wide spectrum of social, political, economic and cultural issues related to recent developments in the European Union and its member states.