nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210708-020135-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210707s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210708-020135-0 doi eng 342 23 Fuchs, Marie-Christine Author aut Strasbourg and San José Close Ranks Dialogue Between Courts on the Independence of Prosecutors (Part II) Fuchs, Marie-Christine Verfassungsblog 2021-07-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier At the end of 2020, for the first time in its more than 40 years of jurisprudential history, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the arbitrary dismissals of two public prosecutors to be unconventional. Not only judges but also prosecutors are increasingly subject to threats to their independence, both in Latin America and Europe, as well as in other regions. This article addresses the question of whether the same judicial guarantees apply to public prosecutors and attorneys as to judges and looks at how the Inter-American Court sought inspiration from the precedents of the European Court of Human Rights. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 ECtHR independence of prosecutors Inter-American Court of Human Rights judciail dialogue judicial independence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/strasbourg-and-san-jose-close-ranks-2/ raw object