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

[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.,,( ).