Briton fails to overturn ban on long-term expats voting in UK elections
Harry Schindler, who has lived in Italy since 1982, challenged voting ban for Britons who have lived abroad for over 15 years A 91-year-old Briton who lives in northern Italy has failed to overturn the ban on expatriates voting...Read more...
ECHR Case Filed on Extraordinary Rendition
by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon Another extraordinary rendition case has been launched in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that will be relevant to those following Guantanamo detainees: Abu Zubaydah v Poland involves...Read more...
Terminally ill woman says while Government does not want her to die, the cuts it implements...
The terminally ill woman who lost her Supreme Court challenge to the ban on assisted suicide has criticised the government for not allowing her to die but implementing cuts which ‘chips away’ at her quality of life. Marie...Read more...
Secret Imprisonment, Rule of Law and Legal Aid Under Attack – The Human Rights Roundup
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular assortment of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. Not a...Read more...
Turkey’s longest-serving inmate enjoying freedom
Tuesday, September 13 2011 , Your time is 15:58:00 LOCAL > Turkey’s longest-serving inmate enjoying freedom ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News Tahir Canan, recenlty released from prison after serving 32 years in jail, a record...Read more...
Moustaquim c. Belgique
Moustaquim c. Belgique, Requête no. 12313/86, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 18 February 1991, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5183ee5b4.html [accessed 6 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Activist to Take Police, Judges to Court Over 2004 Beatings
In October of last year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared that the government of Armenia must pay Grisha Virabyan 31,000 Euros in moral and monetary compensation stemming from a beating he received from Ararat...Read more...
News from Central and Eastern Europe, Monday 6th May 2013
BALKANS Eurasia Review: Pristina-Belgrade Agreement Implementation In Limbo. ‘Kosovo Serbs wave flags during a protest against the accord on the normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, in the ethnically divided...Read more...
Abdulaziz, Cabeles et Balkandali v. the United Kingdom
Abdulaziz, Cabeles et Balkandali v. the United Kingdom, Application no. 9214/80; 9473/81; 9474/81, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 28 May 1985, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5183e6b34.html...Read more...
Saleck Bardi c. Espagne
Saleck Bardi c. Espagne, Requête no 66167/09, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 24 May 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5183e3e64.html [accessed 6 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication....Read more...
Neulinger et Shuruk c. Suisse
Neulinger et Shuruk c. Suisse, Requête no 41615/07, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 6 July 2010, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5183df6c4.html [accessed 6 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Demand to have Alevi on ID turns into vicious circle
A man in the western province of İzmir has applied to the Constitutional Court after his religious designation on his identity card was not changed to “Alevi” despite a decision of the European Court of Human Rights. Alevi...Read more...
For better experience
By Shetlandman-France unlike goody-two-shoes Britain doesn’t appear to mess around with the European Court of Human Rights tripe. When it wants to get rid of scum, they just put them on the plane. We in Britain where saddled...Read more...
Judges rule to destroy homeschoolers’ family
Swedish court rejects appeal of order separating parents from only child Published: 3 hours ago | WND NEWS The justices of the Supreme Court of Sweden have finished the destruction of a family that was begun in their lower...Read more...
PACE urging Ukrainian authorities to release Tymoshenko in response to ECHR's ruling
Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have urged the Ukrainian authorities to use all legal means to release former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko following the recent ruling of...Read more...
ECHR ‘rules out right of return for Greek Cypriots’
Author: Poly Pantelides THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has effectively ruled out the right of displaced Cypriots to return to their homes, said the lawyer who was recently told by the ECHR that Turkey was not obliged...Read more...
Abortion legislation hailed as 'important step' by human rights official - Irish Times -- 05:02
President’s remarks on austerity reflect wider frustration, says visiting secretary general of Council of Europe First published: Sat, May 4, 2013, 06:00 The Council of Europe’s secretary general, Thorbjørn Jagland, has...Read more...
Europe court rules former Ukraine prime minister was wrongly detained in 2011
Ukraine's arrest and detention of opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko violated her rights, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday. The decision appears to add to spreading international condemnation of Ukraine's...Read more...
Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 is necessary and long overdue - Irish Times -- 09:28
First published: Thu, May 2, 2013, 01:05 The Cabinet’s agreement on Tuesday to the heads of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 is an important and welcome first step in filling a serious 21-year lacuna in the...Read more...
EU Court: Greece Violated Immigrants Rights
In yet another blow to Greece’s record of dealing with immigrants, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the country violated the human rights of two immigrants, one of them a minor and the other a woman, in...Read more...
A 'very real tragedy' behind a human rights case - Irish Examiner -- 00:30
Deirdre Conroy revealed her identity after Savita’s death, writes Claire O’Sullivan By Claire O'Sullivan Irish Examiner Reporter For the first time yesterday, the Irish woman who brought the ‘D versus Ireland’ case spoke out...Read more...
Bloomberg: Stop the Putinization of Ukraine
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today on what was already obvious: that Ukraine's imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on abuse-of-office charges was politically motivated -- or at least unrelated to...Read more...
I'm going nowhere! Somali sex beast defies deportation
A SOMALI criminal who carried out a sex attack after his deportation from Britain was blocked by the European Court of Human Rights yesterday boasted: “I’m not going anywhere.” Convicted mugger Ahmed Hersi spent an estimated...Read more...
Sacked for having the wrong beliefs
Thanks to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last year, the UK Employment Rights Act has been amended so that, from the first day of employment, an employee can bring a claim of unfair dismissal if the reason for...Read more...
FF defers abortion legislation support decision
The Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party has decided to defer a decision on whether or not to support the Government's abortion legislation. After meeting in Leinster House for four-and-a-half hours, it was decided to reconvene...Read more...
Serbian troops who fought in Kosovo war of ethnic cleansing could receive millions of pounds in...
Soldiers fought in 4-month war against Nato and British forces 14 years ago Tory MPs condemn Strasbourg judges' decision to hear claims as 'lunacy' ECHR held in its initial hearing that Serb conscripts were victims of human...Read more...
Matter of consent
YOU reported (29 April) that the Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish Parliament exceeded its legislative competence when it passed the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003, the reason being that the act is not...Read more...
Christina Eckes: One Step Closer: EU Accession to the ECHR
The final version of the draft accession agreement was concluded on 5 April 2013. It will allow the EU to become a contracting party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), arguably on more than equal footing with...Read more...
Fact file: What is kettling?
Global News looks at kettling, a police tactic used recently to break up demonstrations in Toronto and Montreal. What is kettling? Kettling , a tactic widely used by police in Europe, is a way police contain and control large...Read more...
UKRAINE: Daughter of jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko, Yevgenia, says she hopes that President...
Lib Ref: RTV010197642 Title: UKRAINE: Daughter of jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko, Yevgenia, says she hopes that President Viktor Yanukovich will pardon her mother, after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the...Read more...
