Content tagged with Limitation on use of restrictions on rights
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Popular critical news sites challenge block by Azerbaijani Government
Four prominent independent or opposition news websites are challenging the Government’s and courts’ decision to block access to them in Azerbaijan.
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Resource | Article | 27 Jun 2017 | By Ayder Muzhdabaev
“Putin’s new ghetto has no barbed-wire fence – just surveillance and harassment”
The Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, has swiftly degenerated into the scene of the greatest repression being conducted anywhere in the entire country.
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Renowned Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova challenges travel ban before European Court
Internationally acclaimed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova challenges the travel ban imposed on her by the Azerbaijani Government at the European Court.
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European Court: Russia has case to answer on ‘Law on Foreign Agents’
The European Court of Human Rights decided to refer a series of cases to the Russian Government on the ‘Foreign Agents Act’, legislation which places administrative and financial sanctions on NGOs receiving funding from abroad.
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Banned Crimean Tatar Mejlis takes case to Strasbourg Court
The Mejlis (representative body of Crimean Tatars) has submitted an application to the European Court concerning its designation as an ‘extremist’ organisation and subsequent banning by the Russian authorities.
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Grand Chamber hears EHRAC case on whether detention of former Georgian Prime Minister was politically motivated
EHRAC lawyers represented Ivane Merabishvili in a Grand Chamber hearing, arguing his pre-trial detention was unlawful, unnecessary & politically motivated.
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Azerbaijan: Is it time to invoke Infringement Proceedings for failing to implement judgments of the Strasbourg Court?
EHRAC Legal Consultant Ramute Remezaite analyses whether infringement proceedings should be invoked in light of Azerbaijan's failure to implement judgments.
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Resource | Case Summary | 14 Jun 2016 | By Emil Sahakyan
Merabishvili v Georgia
The applicant is Ivane Merabishvili, and is the former Georgian Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the opposition United National Movement Party.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Mar 2016 | By Anastasia Denisova
Rasul Jafarov v Azerbaijan
Rasul Jafarov, the applicant, is a prominent civil society activist in Azerbaijan and the Chairman of Human Rights Club (“HRC”), a human rights NGO.
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Strasbourg Censures Georgia over Detention of Former Prime Minister – the impact of an Article 18 violation
Prof. Philip Leach explores the impact of the European Court's judgment against Georgia in the case of its former Prime Minister, Ivane Merabishvili.