Content tagged with A1P1: Protection of property
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Resource | Case Summary | 14 Jan 2020 | By Nicola Balmer
J.D. and A v UK
European Court rules that UK's bedroom tax breached the rights of two applicants.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Oliver Saunders
Aliyev v Armenia, Hakobyan v Azerbaijan et al.
Four cases brought by four separate families whose homes were shelled by the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan during the hostilities of April 2016 have been communicated to the ECtHR.
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Lawyer disbarred for disclosing his client’s torture allegations in prison seeks justice from the European Court of Human Rights
Yalchin Imanov is the latest of at least two dozen human rights lawyers to have been disbarred, had their licences suspended, been criminally prosecuted or otherwise pressured by the authorities in Azerbaijan.
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The annexation of Crimea: Continuing interference with rights guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights
This Blog focuses on situations amounting to a continuing interference with specific ECHR rights in Crimea following Russia's annexation.
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Police should protect from and investigate religious hate crime against Georgia’s Muslim minority
Plans for a Muslim school in Kobuleti were marred by abuse by Orthodox Christians, who, at the peak of their hate crime, nailed a pig’s head to the school.
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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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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Dec 2017 | By Harriet Bland
Sargsyan v Azerbaijan (Just Satisfaction)
Minas Sargsyan, an ethnic Armenian, lived in Gulistan village, Azerbaijan, until 1992, when he and his family were forced to flee to Armenia as refugees, following heavy bombing by Azerbaijani forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He applied to the ECtHR for redress in 2006.
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Resource | Case Summary | 14 Mar 2017 | By Olga Grygorovska
Orlov and others v Russia
Oleg Orlov, the chairman of Memorial Human Rights Centre, was abducted in Ingushetia in 2007 along with three REN-TV journalists.
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25 years on: Azerbaijani and Armenian Governments have primary responsibility to address human rights violations from Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The ECHR issued its long-awaited decisions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, calling for a property restitution mechanism and for a political resolution.
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The impact of strategic litigation: compensation for victims of Soviet-era repression in Georgia
The landmark 2010 case of Klaus and Yuri Kiladze v Georgia paved the way for many thousands of Georgian victims of Soviet repression to seek compensation.