آزادىهاى اساسى است . مادّهى 3 اين كنوانسيون به بحث ممنوعيّت شكنجه ، و ديگر رفتارها يا مجازاتهاى غيرانسانى ، بىرحمانه و ظالمانه مىپردازد . « 1 » دادگاه و كميسيون اروپايى حقوق بشر ، محتواى اين مادّه را توسعه داده ، و تنبيه بدنى كودكان را داخل و در محدودهى اين مادّه قرار داده است ؛ و بيان داشته است تنبيه و مجازات بدنى كودكان نقض مادّهى 3 به شمار مىرود . « 2 » به عنوان مثال در قضيه كارِن وارويك « 3 » - كه مدير مدرسه او را در حال سيگار كشيدن در محوطه مدرسه مشاهده كرد ، و به همين خاطر او را مورد تنبيه بدنى قرار داد و با عصا به كف دستش زد . - پس از آنكه مادر كارِن از طرح دعوا در محاكم محلّى نتيجه نگرفت ، به دادگاه اروپايى حقوق بشر شكايت كرد ؛ دادگاه اروپايى اين عمل را نقض مادّهى 3 دانسته ، و چنين عملى را يك رفتار تحقيرآميز و غيرانسانى
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( 1 ). Ibid , art . .( 2 ). Assenov and Others v . Bulgaria , Eur . Ct . H . R . , , ( ) , ( finding that beatings to a juvenile , whether caused by his father or the police , were serious enough to constitute ill - treatment within the scope of Article of the European Convention where they resulted in multiple hematomas and grazes ) ; A v . United Kingdom , Eur . Ct . H . R . ( ) , ( ruling that an adult's caning of his stepson so as to cause bruises and welts violated Article of the European Convention even though a jury had previously acquitted the stepfather of assault under English law ) ; Y v . United Kingdom , Y . B . Eur . Conv . on H . R . ( Eur . Ct . H . R . ) ( taking note of a settlement reached after the European Commission of Human Rights found that Article of the European Convention had been violated when school personnel caned a fifteen - year - old pupil four times on his clothed buttocks so as to cause bruises and swelling ) ; Tyrer v . United Kingdom , Eur . Ct . H . R . ( ser . A ) ( ) ( holding that when authorities inflicted a judicially mandated birching on a fifteen - year - old , they violated the prohibition in Article of the European Convention against degrading treatment ) ; App . No . / v . U . K . , Eur . H . R . Rep . , ( ) ( Eur . Comm'n on H . R . ) ( holding admissible a complaint that Article of the European Convention was violated when school personnel struck ope student's palms and struck another student's buttocks twice with a leather strap ) ; quoted at : Susan H . Bitensky , op . cit , p . .( 3 ). Warwick v . United Kingdom , App . No . / , Eur . Cornm'n H . R . Dec . Rep . , , ( ) .