Christians launch landmark defense of religious freedom
European Court of Human Rights to make final ruling on public displays of faith. Christians are to launch a landmark legal case arguing their religion is being treated as a “thought crime” by government and courts. Campaigners...Read more...
Savita Halappanvar case: Husband to visit India to brief her parents
Praveen Halappanvar, the husband of the 31-year-old Indian dentist who died in an Ireland hospital following a miscarriage last October, plans to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights after an inquest into her...Read more...
Azerbaijan: Authorities Targeting Youth Activists
Human Rights Watch, Azerbaijan: Authorities Targeting Youth Activists, 3 April 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5175026d4.html [accessed 22 April 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible...Read more...
Christians being seen as uncool does not add up to persecution | Ian Birrell
taking a landmark legal case to the European court of human rights because they believe they are being punished for "thought crimes" by our courts acting in conjunction with a Conservative-led coalition . Their claims of...Read more...
Savita`s husband plans India visit to brief her parents
London: The husband of Savita Halappanvar is planning to visit India to brief her parents on the next step in his legal battle to uncover the truth behind her death at an Irish hospital. Praveen Halappanvar, the husband of the...Read more...
VII Regional Moot Court Competition held in Slovenia
On 19-21 April, Civil Rights Defenders organises the 7th Regional Moot Court Competition in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia. Teams from Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and...Read more...
Bribery and genocide: the same?
I am pleased to note that the Government has announced new measures to fight corruption. A Bill before the House proposes “to remove the applicability of prescription to the offence of corruption” committed by a minister, a...Read more...
ECtHR obliges Russia to pay compensation to relatives of Abdul-Yazit Askhabov kidnapped in Chechnya
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case of the kidnapping in 2009 of Abdul-Yazit Askhabov, a resident of Chechnya. The ECtHR has stated that Russian authorities failed to conduct an effective...Read more...
Praveen Halappanavar may take Ireland to European Court of Human Rights
Praveen Halappanavar may take Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights, following the completion of the inquest on Friday into his late wife Savita, who died in University Hospital Galway last October.Read more...
Openings and closure
Author: Simon Bahceli IN THE 1990s I used to stand on top of a Venetian rampart in a rubbish-strewn park at Arabahmet and forlornly watch the seemingly carefree traffic whizzing through Paphos Gate. A voyeur in the true sense...Read more...
Germany violates the law (the trial of neo-Nazis)
Date: Location: Germany Posted On: April 21, 2013 by Sich.-Ing. Jörg Hensel Gettorf, to 18.04.2013 Free expert on occupational safety and health Human rights defenders i.S.d. UN Resolution 53/144 European Year of Citizens 2013...Read more...
Boston Attacks Turn Spotlight on Troubled Chechen Region
WASHINGTON — The possible motivations of the two brothers linked to the Boston Marathon bombings are as yet publicly unknown. Of Chechen heritage, they lived in the United States for years, according to friends and relatives,...Read more...
Sense and sensibilty
“Haroon Aswat, accused of trying to establish a training camp in Oregon with Abu Hamza, should not be extradited from Britain to the United States, the European Court of Human Rights ruled , as it might make his paranoid...Read more...
Turkey’s unruly rule of law
Firdevs Robinson, openDemocracy, April 17, 2013After ten years of the aggressive “Islam and democracy” experiment, Turkey is increasingly being torn apart between contrasting world views and life styles. Within the last week,...Read more...
European Court Issues Startling Ruling on Abuse in Chechnya
MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) – The European Court of Human Rights has handed down a ruling that rights activists called unprecedented in its implication of Chechen law enforcement officials in a kidnapping case. Earlier this...Read more...
EU court stops extradition of UK Islamist
THE European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the extradition from Britain of a mentally ill man who is wanted by US authorities for conspiring to establish an Islamist militant training camp in Oregon. A seven-judge...Read more...
Anne Williams
Anne Williams, who has died aged 62, played a leading part in the campaign to expose the extent of the official cover-up into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, and in particular the conduct of the police before and during the...Read more...
Toespraak Timmermans op bijeenkomst Mensenrechten te Maastricht
Toespraak Timmermans op bijeenkomst Mensenrechten te Maastricht Toespraak van minister Timmermans tijdens de consultatiebijeenkomst over mensenrechten te Maastricht op 17 april 2013. ¶ To put things into historical perspective,...Read more...
In a First, European Court Condemns Kadyrov's Police
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Chechen police loyal to strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov kidnapped and murdered a local man more than three years ago, awarding the victim's mother more than $80,000 in...Read more...
Commercial Court refuses call from Peter Darragh Quinn for delay in action
Fugitive Quinn tells court he is appealing contempt ruling to European Court of Human Rights First published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 18:28 Peter Darragh Quinn, a nephew of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn, has asked the Commercial...Read more...
European Human Rights Court urges Russia not to extradite Ismon Azimov to Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, April 19, 2013, Asia-Plus -- The European Court of Human Rights has urged Russia not to extradite to Dushanbe a Tajik citizen facing religious extremism charges, Radio Liberty reports. The court reportedly said on...Read more...
New Yerevan police chief dogged by torture claims; opposition cites case heard by ECHR
Chief of the head department for criminal investigation of the police has been appointed chief of Yerevan police. His name was mentioned as a torturer in the lawsuit by one of the opposition activists who had turned to the...Read more...
Families of Disappeared Village Guards Awarded 1,460,000 Euros
The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty for violating right to life, torture ban, and right to freedom and security in the 1994 Ormancık case on the disappearance of 13 village guards under gendarmerie detention,...Read more...
The Fazıl Say incident
The sentencing of Fazıl Say to 10 months in jail should be examined both from the legal aspect and from the aspect of social responsibility. From the legal point of view, I find the court’s verdict to be wrong. From the point...Read more...
Abu Qatada: May 'deeply frustrated'
The UK government has repeatedly attempted to have Abu Qatada deported Continue reading the main story Home Secretary Theresa May has said she is "deeply frustrated" at continued legal obstacles to the deportation of radical...Read more...
Will compensation correct the state’s fault?
Complaints about the “excessive lengths of proceedings” make up the largest category of applications against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). As of Sept. 23, 2012, Turkish citizens complaining to the ECHR in...Read more...
Rights Court Urges Russia Not To Extradite Tajik
The European Court of Human Rights has urged Russia not to extradite to Dushanbe a Tajik citizen facing religious extremism charges. The court said on April 18 that sending Ismon Azimov to Tajikistan would subject him to the...Read more...
Convicted ex-Romanian PM Nastase: Complaint made to Europe’s Human Rights Court, suicide attempt...
Ex-con former PM Adrian Nastase has been talking to the press, following his recent release from prison for corruption crimes. Nastase said he submitted a request to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in December 2012...Read more...
Romania’s Ponta Avoids No-Confidence Vote Over Restitution Law
Romanian opposition failed to win backing for a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Victor Ponta’s four-month-old Cabinet over a property-restitution law demanded by the European Court of Human Rights . The...Read more...
Family of teen who died on holiday still fighting for justice 17 years on
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 The family of an Irishman who died on holiday in Tenerife 17 years ago hope to bring their son’s case to the European Court of Human Rights. Garry Walton, 21, from Touraneena, Co Waterford, drowned...Read more...
