Content tagged with Litigation
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People keep disappearing – it is time for Russia to take responsibility
Thousands of enforced disappearances have plagued Russia’s North Caucasus region for more than two decades. This group of cases, which the Court has joined to consider them as a group, questions the disappearances of thirteen people since 2005, last seen in the custody of the police or the secret services.
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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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270 years in prison: Azerbaijan’s ‘special security’ operation on town of Nardaran
In the evening of 26 November 2015, masked security forces stormed the town of Nardaran, where the Muslim Unity Movement is based. MUM is an unregistered religious group formed in 2015, whose members describe themselves as “non-violent, conservative Shiites” aimed at promoting the role of Islam.
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Ten years on, families of those killed during 1 March protests in Yerevan need answers
To this day, there remain many unanswered questions about the events of 1 March 2008 and no one has been held responsible for the ten deaths.
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No control should not amount to no responsibility: Khlebik v Ukraine
Olena Protsenko (UHHRU) discusses Khlebik v Ukraine, and what it means in the context of the ongoing armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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State authorities must take responsibility for 2011 Kolskaya oil rig disaster
One icy December night in 2011, an oil rig with 67 crew members capsized in the middle of the freezing Sea of Okhotsk. The rig took just 20 minutes to sink, and only 14 of the 67 crew members were rescued. The rig was owned by a subsidiary of oil company Gazprom, which is majority-owned by the Russian government.
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Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge Oleksandr Volkov awarded compensation for 2010 dismissal
The Ukrainian Government has undertaken to pay Mr Volkov 1,430,212.32 UAH (approx. €41,000) for pecuniary damage for his dismissal from the post of Supreme Court Judge.
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Resource | Case Summary | 23 May 2017 | By Tatiana Stryzheuskaya
Bălșan v Romania
Angelica Bălșan, was subjected to physical assaults and threats from her husband on numerous occasions between 2007 and 2008.
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Resource | Case Summary | 25 Jul 2017 | By Kia Kyhl
Carvalho Pinto de Sousa Morais v Portugal
The applicant is a Portuguese woman, who in 1995 underwent surgery at the Central Lisbon Hospital for a gynaecological disease causing her pain.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Jun 2017 | By Emil Sahakyan
Bayev and others v Russia
The three applicants are gay rights activists, who were fined for holding demonstrations against laws banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ among minors.