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Saadi v Italy was a case of the European Court of Human Rights decided in February 2008, in which the Court unanimously reaffirmed and extended principles established in Chahal v United Kingdom regarding the absolute nature of the principle of non-refoulement and the obligations of a state under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In particular the Court addressed the role of an exchange of notes between Italy and Tunisia and ruled that it was inadequate to protect against the risk that Saadi would be ill-treated, as Tunisia had only restated Tunisian law and had not made the diplomatic assurances against ill-treatment requested by Italy. The ruling did not directly address in its ratio whether diplomatic assurances could constitute adequate protection in general when such assurances were provided by states known to practice torture, but reiterated in dicta that even if Italy had received such assurances, the Court would still have examined them for reliability.