Percy Bratt specializes in, among other things, human rights and constitutional issues and is also the lawyer who has submitted a complaint to the European Court of Justice regarding the Swedish IS women held by the Kurds in northeastern Syria.
The UN and other international human rights organizations, such as the Red Cross, believe that conditions in the camps where the women are held are so bad that they can be considered torture.
"Humiliating treatment"
Bratt leans in his complaint against the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 3, which prohibits no one from being subjected to torture or other cruel and inhuman treatment or punishment.
He says this also applies to prisons.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that if prison conditions are unacceptable, there is not enough space, enough light and exercise and if you are exposed to violence or a combination of these circumstances, well then it may be just one such degrading treatment.
Rights holders are always all people, regardless of whether they are convicted or not.
Should Sweden try to bring this Swedish citizen home so that she can serve her sentence in Sweden?
- Yes, that's my opinion.
I think there is both a moral basis and a human rights basis for this.
Based on the pictures you have shown me and the description I received, it looks like this.
An overall assessment would lead to the finding that it is incompatible with Article 3.
"Human rights apply to everyone"
Percy Bratt believes that Sweden's politicians have adapted to an opinion regarding the issue of the Swedish IS prisoners.
- I can not perceive it in any other way than that they carefully adapt to the political opinion which then thinks that these people are suspected of such serious crimes that they have no right to human rights.
But so it is a wrong and dangerous approach.
Human rights apply to everyone.
- If we start sorting people into those who can assert human rights and not, we end up on a sloping plane.