Content tagged with 2016
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Azerbaijan fails to execute European Court judgment as human rights defender is prevented from standing in 2020 parliamentary elections
On 7 January 2020, EHRAC filed a submission to the Committee of Ministers (CoM) of the Council of Europe in a case concerning the prominent human rights defender Rasul Jafarov, after the Azerbaijani authorities` refused to register him as an electoral candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections on 9 February 2020.
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EHRAC intervenes in Navalnyy case at European Court—“Politically-motivated proceedings should apply to the totality of the criminal justice process”
EHRAC has intervened in a high-profile case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), brought by the prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalnyy, arguing that political interference in criminal trials should be designated by the Court through the application of the rarely-invoked Article 18 provision of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in conjunction with the right to a fair trial.
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EHRAC and Yale Law School submit third-party intervention in Nagorno-Karabakh right to life cases
EHRAC, together with the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, has submitted a third-party intervention at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in two cases arising from the renewal of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan in April 2016 over the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Family of Georgian man murdered by Abkhazia border guard reiterate Russia’s responsibility for his death
The family of a Georgian man who was murdered at a checkpoint by an Abkhaz ‘border guard’ have maintained Russia’s responsibility for his killing in their reply to observations made by the Russian Government submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 30 July 2019.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Oliver Saunders
Aliyev v Armenia, Hakobyan v Azerbaijan et al.
Four cases brought by four separate families whose homes were shelled by the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan during the hostilities of April 2016 have been communicated to the ECtHR.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Nicola Balmer
Volodina v Russia
Failure to protect from, prevent, deter, censure or investigate serious and prolonged domestic violence amounted to degrading treatment, contributed to a “climate conducive to domestic violence” and was discriminatory on the basis of gender.
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Annual Report 2016 now online
2016 was in many ways a troubling year for the human rights community, but it is important to recognise positive trends too, and certainly EHRAC achieved a lot within the space of one year.
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Resource | EHRAC Annual Report | 31 Dec 2016
Annual Report 2016
2016 was in many ways a troubling year for the human rights community, but it is important to recognise positive trends too, and certainly EHRAC achieved a lot within the space of one year.
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European Court rules Russia’s detention and deportation of Georgians ten years ago contravened Convention rights
The applicants (or their relatives) were all arrested and held in police stations or detention centres; the Court ruled that the conditions of their “arbitrary and unlawful” detention constituted inhuman and degrading treatment.
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Resource | Case Summary | 5 Jul 2016 | By Eleanor Healy-Birt
Jeronovičs v Latvia
This case provides useful guidance on unilateral declarations. Measures proposed in unilateral declarations often did not fully redress violations.