Content tagged with A13: Right to an effective remedy
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Defendants in ‘Ganja case’ take torture claims to European Court of Human Rights
EHRAC, together with an Azerbaijani partner lawyer, has lodged an application at the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of five young men who were arrested at a protest in Azerbaijan’s second city, Ganja, and later mistreated and tortured in detention.
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Resource | 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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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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Russia responsible for the abduction and presumed deaths of five young men in the North Caucasus between 2007-2011
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 8 October 2019 found Russia responsible for the disappearances and deaths of five men from Chechnya, Ingushetia and other regions of the North Caucasus between 2007 and 2011.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019
Gorlov & others v Russia
Permanent CCTV cell monitoring by Russia of prisoners or those held in pre-trial detention breached their rights to respect for their private life and to an effective remedy.
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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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European Court rapidly communicates case of Kist teenager fatally shot by Georgian security forces
The European Court of Human Rights (ECthR) has rapidly communicated the case of a 19-year-old Kist man who was fatally shot in his bedroom by Georgian security forces.
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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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Resource | Case Summary | 25 Apr 2019 | By Roman Kiselyov
Ter-Petrosyan v Armenia
The applicant, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, is an Armenian national who was the President of Armenia between 1991 and 1998. He was the main opposition candidate in the 19 February 2008 Presidential election, standing against then Prime Minister Mr Sargsyan. Immediately after the preliminary results of the election were announced, the applicant called on his supporters to gather at Yerevan’s Freedom Square to protest against alleged electoral irregularities.
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Family of 19-year-old Kist man Temirlan Machalikashvili fatally shot in his bedroom by state agents seeks justice before the European Court
Temirlan Machalikashvili was shot in the head and hospitalised when State Security Service officers raided his home. He died on 10 January 2018.