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Investigation into the beating of an immigrant by police officers based on the statements of the police officers! Violation of procedural and substantive part of Article 3 of the ECHR

Article 3
23/10/2023 09:27

JUDGMENT Shahzad v. Hungary 05.10.2023 (app. no. 37967/18) see here SUMMARY The applicant illegally entered Hungarian territory from Serbia. He was forcibly driven by police officers to the border, to exit the country. He claimed that during this operation, he was beaten with a glove which caused bruises and a hematoma on his head. The […]

Demonstrator was detained for 8 days for throwing beans at police officers at a demonstration! Violation of the freedoms of expression and assembly

Article 10
13/05/2023 18:57

JUDGMENT Chkhartishvili v. Georgia 11.05.2023 (app. no. 31349/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s arrest in 2019 at a demonstration for disobeying police orders to move off the road and throwing beans at the police, shouting that beans used to be “gruel for slaves”. The demonstration in Tbilisi was part of a series […]

Applicant’s alleged ill-treatment by the police, while under the influence of alcohol. Conviction for degrading treatment!

Article 3
08/03/2023 20:50

JUDGMENT BABIĆ v. CROATIA 07.03.2023 (app. no. 45391/16) see here SUMMARY Applicant’s arrest for insulting police officers while under the influence of alcohol. The applicant submitted that he had been punched and kicked by the police officers in the van during the journey to the police station, although he admitted that he had been drunk […]

Identity check used as pretext to prevent applicants from attending demonstration: violation of the Convention

Article 11
28/05/2022 18:49

JUDGMENT Alıcı and others v. Turkey 24.05.2022 (app. no. 70098/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned applicants who were arrested while travelling by bus from Adana to Ankara to take part in a demonstration and who incurred an administrative fine for withholding their identities from the police who stopped their bus. The Court found that […]

Use of police force on a mother and her 4-year-old daughter! Conviction for inhuman and degrading treatment!

Article 3
26/05/2022 18:47

JUDGMENT Dokukiny v. Russia 24.05.2022 (app. no. 1223/12) see here SUMMARY The applicants, Yuliya Dokukina and Alina Dokukina, are Russian nationals born in 1976 and 2005 respectively and living in Lipetsk (Russia). They are mother and daughter. The last one was four years old when the events happened. Police stopped them in a park shortly […]

Rejection of men’s application for parental leave constitutes gender discrimination and violates family life!

Article 14
14/07/2021 19:49

JUDGMENT Gruba and others v. Russia 06.07.2021 (app. no. 66180/09, 30771/11, 50089/11 and 22165/12) see here SUMMARY Universal right to parental leave regardless of gender. Refusal to grant parental leave to men. Gender discrimination. Family life. Involvement of a prosecutor in a civil trial. Violation of equality of arms. The four applicants are male police […]

Deadly beating of a military man during his arrest. The investigation has been conducted for 12 years without any result by the authority that arrested him. Ineffective research. Violation of the right to life

Article 2
18/02/2021 10:05

JUDGMENT Shavadze v. Georgia 19.11.2020 (app. no. 72080/12) see here SUMMARY Savage beating by the police. Right to life and effective research. The applicant’s husband, an army officer, was arrested for a drug law offense. While trying to escape, he was brutally beaten by the police and passed away. The investigation was carried out by […]

Torture, death, abduction, inhuman and degrading treatment, police brutality against protesters! Multiple convictions for violations of the ECHR

Article 11
09/02/2021 13:43

JUDGMENT Shmorgunov and Others v. Ukraine (applications no. 15367/14 and 13 others), Lutsenko and Verbytskyy v. Ukraine (12482/14 and 39800/14), Kadura and Smaliy v. Ukraine (42753/14 and 43860/14), Dubovtsev and Others v. Ukraine (21429/14 and 9 others) and Vorontsov and Others v. Ukraine (58925/14 and 4 others) 21.01.2021. see here SUMMARY The cases concerned events around […]

Extensive police check of identity papers and personal belongings without sufficient safeguards. Violation of privacy

Article 13
05/02/2021 09:20

JUDGMENT Vig v. Hungary 14.01.2021 (app. no. 59648/13) see here SUMMARY Respect for privacy and extensive police checks on identity documents and personal belongings. Inability to control and proportionality of the police order for extensive police controls. During extensive police checks ordered by the Director of Police to prevent illegal immigration, the applicant, attending a […]

Conviction on the basis of pre-trial testimony of witnesses who failed to testify at the hearing violated fair trial

Article 6
20/03/2020 19:08

JUDGMENT Chernika v. Ukraine 12.03.2020 (no. 53791/11) see here SUMMARY Conviction of defendant on the basis of pre-trial testimony of witnesses who failed to testify at the hearing. Infringement of a fair trial. The applicant is a police officer. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison for drug trafficking. During the hearing, 3 key […]

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