Content tagged with Limitation on use of restrictions on rights
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Human rights lawyer Alayif Hasanov’s disbarment violates his Convention rights
In December 2018, EHRAC filed its further submissions with the Court, arguing that Alayif’s disbarment is arbitrary and politically motivated, and aimed at curtailing his professional activities as a human rights lawyer.
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Ten years in prison for graffiti on a statue of Heydar Aliyev
When 21-year-old Bayram Mammadov and 22-year-old Giyas Ibrahimov sprayed graffiti on a statue of Azerbaijan’s former president, Heydar Aliyev, they may have expected a police warning or a fine. Instead, they found themselves arrested on trumped-up drugs charges, beaten and threatened until they confessed.
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Intigam Aliyev’s arrest and detention was to punish him for his human rights activism
The European Court found that Intigam Aliyev's treatment by the Azerbaijani authorities was politically motivated, and aimed at silencing and punishing him for his human rights activism.
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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 | 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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Internet restrictions in Azerbaijan: Yale students conduct research for website blocking case
Students from Yale Law School have collaborated with EHRAC on a case challenging a block the government of Azerbaijan has placed on four news websites in Azerbaijan for publishing allegedly prohibited material.
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The ‘Foreign Agents Act’ is stifling independent civil society
Almost six years after the Russian parliament enacted legislation requiring any organisation receiving funding from abroad to register as ‘foreign agents’, EHRAC and Memorial HRC, alongside a consortium of other NGOs, are challenging the Act’s purpose before the European Court.
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What should happen after the European Court finds a ‘misuse of power’ in criminal proceedings against a leading opposition politician?
Under cover of darkness one night in December 2013, Ivane Merabishvili was hauled from his prison cell and taken to meet two of the highest ranking officials in Georgian law enforcement.
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Former Georgian Prime Minister’s detention was politically motivated, says European Court
The Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights reiterated that there were political motivations behind former Prime Minister and Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili’s extended pre-trial detention.
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European Court to rule whether Georgia’s detention and prosecution of former Prime Minister was politically motivated
On 28 November, the European Court will decide whether political motivations were behind Vano Merabishvili’s prosecution and pre-trial detention.