Content tagged with 2016
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News
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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News
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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News
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.
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Resource | Case Summary | 5 Jul 2016 | By Matthew Cuffe
Lisnyy and others v Ukraine and Russia
This case was brought by applicants who had been affected by the conflict in the Donetsk region of Ukraine from the beginning of April 2014 onwards.
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Resource | Case Summary | 24 Apr 2016 | By Rosie Beacock
Novikova and others v Russia
The applicants were five Russian nationals who had planned solo static demonstrations. Under Russian Federal Law, such demonstrations do not require prior notice to be given to a competent public authority.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Mar 2016 | By Caroline MacPherson
Zalyan and others v Armenia
Arayik Zalyan, Razmik Sargsyan and Musa Serobyan were servicemen in the Armenian army and alleged that they had been subjected to torture while detained as suspects for murder.