Content tagged with Civil society repression
-
News
European Court: Azerbaijani Government has case to answer over blocking of news websites
On 20 September 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the case of four independent news websites blocked by the authorities in Azerbaijan.
-
News
How Russia’s new censorship laws are being used to stifle free expression
EHRAC Chevening Scholar Roman Kiselyov explains how Russia’s new censorship laws have been applied, confirming that human rights defenders’ fears about possible abuses of the laws have been borne out in practice.
-
News
CoE Committee of Ministers call upon Azerbaijan to quash convictions of leading human rights defenders
The Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe today urged Azerbaijan to quash the conviction decisions and delete the criminal records of eight applicants known collectively as the 'Ilgar Mammadov group'.
-
News
Four Russian LGBT activists arrested and detained for peacefully protesting “homosexual propaganda law” counter Government’s submissions
Four Russian LGBT activists arrested and detained during peaceful protests against the State Duma’s adoption of a “homosexual propaganda law” have responded to the Government’s arguments before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
-
News
Suppression of Azerbaijani human rights organisation breaches Human Rights Convention
The European Court ruled that Azerbaijan’s refusal to register the Human Rights Club (HRC), an NGO led by Rasul Jafarov, breached the European Convention.
-
News
Lawyer disbarred for disclosing his client’s torture allegations in prison seeks justice from the European Court of Human Rights
Yalchin Imanov is the latest of at least two dozen human rights lawyers to have been disbarred, had their licences suspended, been criminally prosecuted or otherwise pressured by the authorities in Azerbaijan.
-
News
European Court again finds Russia in breach of right to protest
On 2 July 2019, the European Court gave judgment in a group of cases, submitted by nine applicants, who were unlawfully detained following protests in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Kaliningrad between 2006 and 2010. The Court unanimously held that the right to freedom of assembly and association had been violated in all applications.
-
News
Has the ECtHR in Mammadov 46(4) opened the door to findings of ‘bad faith’ in trials?
Jessica Gavron and Ramute Remezaite explore a case that is highly significant for the European Court’s approach to the implications of politically motivated proceedings.
-
Resource | Case Summary | 9 Apr 2019 | By Emily Campbell
Navalnyy v Russia (No. 2)
The applicant, Aleksey Navalnyy, is an anti-corruption campaigner and opposition political activist in Russia. In December 2012, he and his brother were accused of fraud and money laundering in relation to two companies. The applicant was later placed under house arrest.
-
Resource | Case Summary | 10 Jan 2019 | By Roman Kiselyov
Khadija Ismayilova v Azerbaijan
Award-winning Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova received threats, and was secretly filmed and recorded, with the authorities failing to take action.