Content tagged with Judgment
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The detention of Selahattin Demirtaş and the situation of opposition politicians in Turkey
In November 2018, the European Court released its judgment on the pre-trial detention of Selahattin Demirtaş finding a violation of Article 18 ECHR with Article 5, and adding to the already significant pressure on Turkey to protect human rights and to guarantee political pluralism.
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Russian state agents responsible for disappearance, detention and presumed death of 14 men from North Caucasus
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a group of cases concerning 14 enforced disappearances, finding the Russian state authorities responsible for their detention and presumed deaths, as well as for the emotional distress caused to their families.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Jul 2018 | By Emily Campbell
Angela González Carreño v Spanish Ministry of Justice
The applicant, Angela Gonzalez, is a survivor of domestic violence by her former husband. In 1999, she fled the family home with her daughter Andrea, then aged three. Between 1999 and 2001, Angela lodged no fewer than 30 complaints against her husband to the police for threatening and physically abusing her.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Jul 2018 | By Olga Okhotnikova
Mariya Alekhina and others (Pussy Riot) v Russia
The applicants – Mariya Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich – are members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk band critical of the Kremlin and its connections with the Orthodox church. Five members of the band attempted to perform a protest song in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Jun 2018 | By Harriet Bland
Alpeyeva and Dzhalagoniya v Russia
The applicants are former citizens of the Soviet Union who moved to the Russian Federation from Kyrgyzstan and Georgia (both former Soviet countries). They received Russian passports in 2001 and 2002 respectively. They were unable to renew them, on the grounds that their previous documents had been issued “in error”.
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Resource | Case Summary | 7 Jun 2018 | By Giulio Pagano
Rashad Hasanov and others v Azerbaijan
The four applicants were members of NIDA, a civic movement that seeks liberty, justice, truth and change in Azerbaijan through peaceful means. They were arrested and charged for allegedly obtaining 22 Molotov cocktails and supplying them to two other NIDA members, who had been arrested earlier in March.
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Resource | Case Summary | 19 Apr 2018 | By Celia Boyon
Hajibeyli and Aliyev v Azerbaijan
The applicants, Annagi Hajibeyli and Intigam Aliyev, are both prominent lawyers and civil society activists in Azerbaijan, who have made statements and published articles in the media criticising the legal profession in the country.
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Resource | Case Summary | 19 Apr 2018 | By Olga Grygorovksa
Mammadli v Azerbaijan
The applicant, Anar Mammadli, is a civil society activist and human rights defender who founded the NGO Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre. He has reported on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan before the Council of Europe and in cooperation with UN institutions.
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Georgian prisons must provide detainees with effective medical treatment
Ten months after Rusiko Maisuradze’s son started his prison sentence, his family noticed he was unwell. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and died five months later. The European Court ruled that the Georgian prison authorities deprived him of effective medication for a prolonged period of time.
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Russian state agents are responsible for 17 disappearances in 2002-2004 in the North Caucasus
After years of anguish from not knowing what had happened to their loved ones, the families of 17 ‘disappeared’ men from the North Caucasus have finally received a measure of justice today, establishing that the Russian authorities were responsible for their abduction, detention and presumed deaths.