Content tagged with Country/location
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Resource | Case Summary | 13 Feb 2018 | By Olga Grygorovksa
Tsezar and others v Ukraine
The applicants currently reside in Donetsk, outside of the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. They were recipients of social benefits. Due to the conflict, the domestic authorities transferred the jurisdiction of the Donetsk courts to neighbouring regions that were under government control.
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Resource | Case Summary | 3 Oct 2017 | By Maryam Mamilova
Novaya Gazeta and Milashina v Russia
In August 2000, a nuclear submarine ‘Kursk’ sank in the Barents Sea due to a massive explosion that ripped open its front end. Another explosion quickly followed, which was felt as far away as Alaska. Russian officials declared all 118 crew members dead.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Oct 2017 | By Harriet Bland
Navalnyye v Russia
Political activist Alexei Navalny, and his brother, Oleg Navalny, an entrepreneur, were convicted of fraud and money laundering by a Russian court on 30 December 2014. Alexei received a suspended sentence of three and a half years.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Feb 2018 | By Harriet Bland
Volkov v Ukraine
Oleksandr Volkov was elected to the Supreme Court of Ukraine in 2003. In May 2010, he was dismissed from his post due to an alleged “breach of oath”. In January 2013, the ECtHR found multiple violations of his right to a fair trial and ordered Ukraine to reinstate him immediately as a Supreme Court Judge.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Dec 2017 | By Harriet Bland
Sargsyan v Azerbaijan (Just Satisfaction)
Minas Sargsyan, an ethnic Armenian, lived in Gulistan village, Azerbaijan, until 1992, when he and his family were forced to flee to Armenia as refugees, following heavy bombing by Azerbaijani forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He applied to the ECtHR for redress in 2006.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Dec 2017 | By Giulio Pagano
MM v Russia
The applicant was arrested in January 2005 on charges of murder, to which he confessed following alleged death threats and threats of ill-treatment by police officers. While in pre-trial detention, he was held in overcrowded, insanitary and degrading cells, with less than four metres squared of space.
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Resource | Case Summary | 28 Nov 2017 | By Emil Sahakyan
Merabishvili v Georgia [Grand Chamber]
On 21 May 2013, Ivane Merabishvili, former Prime Minister and, at the time, the leader of the main opposition party (United National Movement), was arrested and detained for abuse of power and other offences.
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Resource | Report | 25 Jul 2018 | By Christian De Vos & Roisin Pillay
Law and Practice in the Selection of Human Rights Judges and Commissioners
Christian De Vos (OSJI) and Roisin Pillay (ICJ) analyse law and practice in the selection of human rights judges for international human rights mechanisms (including the Strasbourg Court), noting the general lack of criteria in place to guide the nomination of qualified, merit-based candidates at the national level.
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Resource | Article | 25 Jul 2018 | By Emin Abbasov
What now for lawyers in Azerbaijan?
Turning to domestic matters, Emin Abbasov, one of only a handful of human rights lawyers who dares to practise in Azerbaijan following a tightening of restrictions on the legal profession, asks what lies ahead for the Azerbaijani legal profession in light of the most recent package of repressive legislative reforms.
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Resource | Report | 25 Jul 2018 | By Harriet Bland
Protocol 16 to the ECHR
On 1 August 2018, Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) enters into force in ten Council of Europe member states, including Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.