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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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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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Council of Europe’s old pandemic: ‘endemic’ ill-treatment and torture in custody in Azerbaijan
EHRAC's Legal Consultant Ramute Remezaite and former EHRAC Oak Fellow Ulkar Aliyeva write about the prevalence of torture in Azerbaijan.
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Blocked news websites counter Azerbaijani Government’s claims at European Court of Human Rights
Four critical news websites blocked by the authorities in Azerbaijan have responded to the Government’s submissions to the European Court of Human Rights and reiterated their claim that the ban violates their right to freedom of expression.
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Council of Europe must urge Azerbaijan to improve situation for human rights defenders
EHRAC and Amnesty International have urged the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to call upon the Government of Azerbaijan to end the restrictive situation for human rights defenders in the country, as part of its obligations to comply with legally- binding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.
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European Court of Human Rights accepts mother’s “prima facie case” of son’s torture and death at the hands of Russian police
Russian police were responsible for the death of a detainee who they claimed had committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window of a police station in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in 2007.