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Case Summary
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Case Summary | 15 Sep 2020 | By Başak Küçük
Tagiyev and Huseynov v Azerbaijan
Criminal conviction for publication of an article criticising Islam.
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Case Summary | 22 Jun 2020 | By Tim Mosk
Razvozzhayev v. Russia & Ukraine and Udaltsov v. Russia
A case concerning the conviction of two men for organising “mass disorder” in a political rally at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012.
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Case Summary | 19 Jun 2020
M.M.B. v Slovakia
The case concerned a young girl's complaint about the authorities' investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by her father, which was subsequently brought to the ECtHR by her mother.
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Case Summary | 19 Jun 2020 | By Tom Kiernan
Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v Russia (No.2)
Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v Russia (No.2) was the latest in a series of cases brought before the ECtHR by senior executives of YUKOS Oil Company regarding their criminal prosecution in Russia.
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Case Summary | 30 Jan 2020 | By Başak Küçük
Pastörs v Germany
A criminal conviction for Holocaust denial in a parliamentary speech was not in breach of freedom of expression.
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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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Case Summary | 13 Jan 2020
Polyakh and others v Ukraine
Five career civil servants dismissed under Ukraine's Government Cleansing (Lustration) Act 2014 had their right to private and family life breached.
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Case Summary | 4 Nov 2019 | By Ben McGowan
Magnitsky & others v Russia
Russia was responsible for the 2009 death of jailed whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, whose case inspired new laws introducing sanctions mechanisms in the US, UK, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
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Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Tom Kiernan
Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company Ltd & Others v Georgia
No judge bias or other breach of fair trial guarantees were found in a shareholder dispute over the ownership of the Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company.
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Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Margaux Merelle
T.I. & others v Greece
Greece failed in its obligations to prevent, prosecute and investigate human trafficking of three Russian nationals who alleged that consulate employees were bribed by traffickers in order to facilitate their entry into Greece.