Content tagged with Soviet repression
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Mar 2019 | By Harriet Bland
Drėlingas v Lithuania
The applicant, Stanislovas Drėlingas, is a Lithuanian national who served as a senior officer in the MGB and KGB Soviet security forces while Lithuania was part of the USSR. In 2014 (after Lithuania’s independence), the applicant was convicted of genocide for his role in the partisans’ arrest on the grounds that, as opponents to Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the partisans had been members of a distinct “national-ethnic-political group”.
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The impact of strategic litigation: compensation for victims of Soviet-era repression in Georgia
The landmark 2010 case of Klaus and Yuri Kiladze v Georgia paved the way for many thousands of Georgian victims of Soviet repression to seek compensation.
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Resource | Report | 8 Jan 2015 | By Tamar Dekanosidze
Georgian survivors of Soviet-era repression no longer denied their right to compensation
Tamar Dekanosidze follows the effects of Kiladze v Georgia on legislation regarding Soviet-era repression.
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Georgia amends legislation following European Court case
The far-reaching effects of EHRAC’s landmark case Kiladze v Georgia and then Burdiashvili v Georgia have extended all the way to Georgia's national legislation.
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Resource | Case Summary | 21 Oct 2013
Janowiec and Others v Russia
Case No. 55508/07 and 29520/09 Judgment date: 21 October 2013 The case originated from two applications brought by fifteen Polish nationals in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The applications were brought against the Russian Federation. EHRAC/Memorial and the Essex Transitional Justice Network filed a joint written submission as third-party interveners in the case. To read the case summary […]
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Resource | Report | 16 Apr 2012
Janowiec and Others v Russia
In January 2013 EHRAC joined forces with the Russian NGO Memorial, and the Essex Transitional Justice Network as third party interveners in the Grand Chamber referral of the case of Janowiec and Others v Russia (Nos. 55508/07 and 29520/09) 16.04.12. This potentially groundbreaking case concerns the historic Katyn Massacre, in which over 21,000 Polish prisoners were executed without trial by Soviet forces […]
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Resource | Article | 1 Jun 2012 | By Natia Katsitadze
Does the practice of the Georgian national courts meet the requirements for the effective enforcement of the Kiladze judgment?
Natia Katsitadze evaluates the legislative amendments made by the Georgian government in light of the findings of the Kiladze case
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Resource | Article | 1 Jun 2011 | By Furkat Tishaev
The European Court and Soviet political repression: a trap for potential applicants?
Furkat Tishaev dicusses the ECtHR's judgement in the Kiladze case and its implications for other victims of Soviet repression
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Feb 2010
Klaus and Yuri Kiladze v Georgia
Case No. 7975/06 Judgment date: 2 February 2010 Facts The applicants’ father was executed in 1937 and their mother was sent to a GULAG (corrective labour camp) in 1938 for alleged crimes against the Soviet regime. Their parents’ flat in Tbilisi and all their belongings were confiscated. The applicants spent two years in an orphanage […]