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Russian authorities unlawfully dispersed protests held in support of Bolotnaya Square accused, European Court rules
The European Court of Human Rights has found, in three separate judgments in October,[i] that Russia violated protestors’ freedom of assembly when police made arrests at public gatherings held in support of defendants accused in the Bolotnaya Square case.
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Russian anti-extremist law gave prosecutors “unfettered power” to sanction Novorossiysk human rights defenders
The European Court of Human Rights found that Russia’s anti-extremist legislation failed to safeguard the free expression of two Novorossiysk human rights defenders who were sanctioned following a public protest in 2009.
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European Court of Human Rights finds Russia responsible for disappearance and presumed death of Ingush woman
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of an Ingush woman who was abducted by state agents in North Ossetia in 2010.
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Russia unlawfully dispersed LGBT+ activists’ protest against “gay propaganda” law
The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that Russia unlawfully interfered with LGBT+ activists’ right to freedom of assembly after they were arrested and convicted for having taken part in a peaceful protest outside the State Duma against the introduction of a "homosexual propaganda” law in 2013.
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Police raid on first ever Georgian LGBT organisation was abusive and discriminatory, rules European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights today found that police ill-treated NGO staff and members of the LGBT community during a homophobic raid carried out on Georgia’s first ever LGBT organisation in 2009.
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Azerbaijani journalist who was brutally attacked wins case at European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights found Azerbaijan responsible for the ill-treatment of investigative journalist Idrak Abbasov, who was brutally beaten by state-oil company SOCAR security guards as police stood by and did nothing at a 2012 protest action against forced evictions in a Baku suburb.
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Resource | 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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The UK’s Global Human Rights Sanctions regime – Regulations with bite, or a toothless tiger?
EHRAC Lawyer Toby Collis assess the scope and potential of the UK's new global human rights sanctions regime.
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Denied an identity in Georgia, EHRAC transgender applicant begins a new life in Belgium
EHRAC has received news that Belgium has granted refugee status to an applicant, a transgender man, on the basis of discrimination and mistreatment that he suffered in Georgia.
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EHRAC briefs Council of Europe diplomats on repression of human rights defenders in Azerbaijan
EHRAC participated in a European Implementation Network briefing given to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers about the Ilgar Mammadov group of cases.