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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.
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Justice delayed is justice denied: Georgia’s 9 year delay in investigating murder of two men by police officers was in breach of the Convention
The applicants in the case are Mr Yuri Vazagashvili and Ms Tsiala Shanava, parents of Z.V., a 22-year-old man, shot in his car during a police operation in the centre of Tbilisi in 2006. ZV was killed when more than 70 shots were fired in the direction of his car, at close range, and despite the fact that the passengers had not fired at the police officers or posed a threat to them.
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European Court finds Russia’s refusal to register 3 LGBT organisations unjustified and discriminatory
On 16 July 2019, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia’s refusal to register associations set up to promote and protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to violate the rights to freedom of association and to be discriminatory on the grounds of sexual orientation. The Court’s judgment was informed by a third party intervention submitted jointly by the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), ILGA-Europe and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on 29 July 2016.
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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.
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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.
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Resource | Case Summary | 25 Apr 2019 | By Roman Kiselyov
Ter-Petrosyan v Armenia
The applicant, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, is an Armenian national who was the President of Armenia between 1991 and 1998. He was the main opposition candidate in the 19 February 2008 Presidential election, standing against then Prime Minister Mr Sargsyan. Immediately after the preliminary results of the election were announced, the applicant called on his supporters to gather at Yerevan’s Freedom Square to protest against alleged electoral irregularities.
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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.
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Resource | Case Summary | 28 May 2019 | By Ben Lloyd
Liblik & others v Estonia
Between August 2005 and October 2006, the Internal Security Service carried out secret surveillance of the applicants based on authorisation decisions of the prosecutor or preliminary investigation judge. The criminal proceedings brought by the Estonian authorities related to suspicions of corruption involving exchanges of plots of land in conservation areas for plots in areas where development was permitted. The first instance court acquitted the applicants, holding that the surveillance evidence was inadmissible as it had been obtained unlawfully.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Mar 2019 | By Harriet Bland
Drėlingas v Lithuania
The applicant, Stanislovas Drėlingas, is a Lithuanian national who served as a senior officer in the MGB and KGB Soviet security forces while Lithuania was part of the USSR. In 2014 (after Lithuania’s independence), the applicant was convicted of genocide for his role in the partisans’ arrest on the grounds that, as opponents to Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the partisans had been members of a distinct “national-ethnic-political group”.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Sep 2018 | By Roman Kiselyov
Mushegh Saghatelyan v Armenia
Mushegh Saghatelyan, an opposition politician, was unlawfully arrested and detained following the 2008 protests which were violently dispersed on 1 March.