Content tagged with 2018
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News
Family of Georgian man murdered by Abkhazia border guard reiterate Russia’s responsibility for his death
The family of a Georgian man who was murdered at a checkpoint by an Abkhaz ‘border guard’ have maintained Russia’s responsibility for his killing in their reply to observations made by the Russian Government submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 30 July 2019.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Nicola Balmer
Volodina v Russia
Failure to protect from, prevent, deter, censure or investigate serious and prolonged domestic violence amounted to degrading treatment, contributed to a “climate conducive to domestic violence” and was discriminatory on the basis of gender.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Sep 2018 | By Roman Kiselyov
Mushegh Saghatelyan v Armenia
Mushegh Saghatelyan, an opposition politician, was unlawfully arrested and detained following the 2008 protests which were violently dispersed on 1 March.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Sep 2018 | By Olga Grygorovska
Aliyev v Azerbaijan
Prominent human rights defender Intigam Aliyev was arrested on spurious charges in 2014, detained and convicted, as punishment for his work.
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News
The detention of Selahattin Demirtaş and the situation of opposition politicians in Turkey
In November 2018, the European Court released its judgment on the pre-trial detention of Selahattin Demirtaş finding a violation of Article 18 ECHR with Article 5, and adding to the already significant pressure on Turkey to protect human rights and to guarantee political pluralism.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Jul 2018 | By Emily Campbell
Angela González Carreño v Spanish Ministry of Justice
The applicant, Angela Gonzalez, is a survivor of domestic violence by her former husband. In 1999, she fled the family home with her daughter Andrea, then aged three. Between 1999 and 2001, Angela lodged no fewer than 30 complaints against her husband to the police for threatening and physically abusing her.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Jul 2018 | By Olga Okhotnikova
Mariya Alekhina and others (Pussy Riot) v Russia
The applicants – Mariya Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich – are members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk band critical of the Kremlin and its connections with the Orthodox church. Five members of the band attempted to perform a protest song in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Jun 2018 | By Harriet Bland
Alpeyeva and Dzhalagoniya v Russia
The applicants are former citizens of the Soviet Union who moved to the Russian Federation from Kyrgyzstan and Georgia (both former Soviet countries). They received Russian passports in 2001 and 2002 respectively. They were unable to renew them, on the grounds that their previous documents had been issued “in error”.
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Resource | Case Summary | 7 Jun 2018 | By Giulio Pagano
Rashad Hasanov and others v Azerbaijan
The four applicants were members of NIDA, a civic movement that seeks liberty, justice, truth and change in Azerbaijan through peaceful means. They were arrested and charged for allegedly obtaining 22 Molotov cocktails and supplying them to two other NIDA members, who had been arrested earlier in March.
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Resource | Case Summary | 19 Apr 2018 | By Celia Boyon
Hajibeyli and Aliyev v Azerbaijan
The applicants, Annagi Hajibeyli and Intigam Aliyev, are both prominent lawyers and civil society activists in Azerbaijan, who have made statements and published articles in the media criticising the legal profession in the country.