Article 11

Dissolution of an association because its name contained an unrecognised nationality. Violation of freedom of association

JUDGMENT Association of People of Silesian Nationality v. Poland 14.03.2024 (app. no. 22415/22) see here SUMMARY The applicant, Association of People of Silesian Nationality, is an association, which was registered in 2011 and went into liquidation in 2016. Silesia is a historic region currently located in south-western Poland. According to the 2011 census nearly half […]

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Police restraint of demonstrators violated their right to freedom of movement, expression and assembly

JUDGMENT Auray and others v. France  08.02.2024 (app. no. 1162/22) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ containment for several hours on Place Bellecour in Lyons on 21 October 2010, during a demonstration against a pension reform bill. Having noted that the reason for cordoning off Place Bellecour had been to separate and contain […]

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The ban on strikes by civil servants’ teachers did not take away the core of their freedom of association and did not violate the right of association

JUDGMENT Humpert and others v. Germany 14.12.2023 (app. no. 59433/18 and 3 others) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the disciplinary sanctions imposed on the applicants, teachers with civil-servant status, for having participated, during their working hours, in strikes organised by their trade union in order to protest against worsening working conditions for teachers. The […]

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Repeated refusal to register a human rights organisation due to failure to comply with legal formalities . Violation of the right of association

JUDGMENT Mariya Alekhina and others v. Russia 28.11.2023 (no. 2) (app. no. 10299/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the Russian authorities’ refusal to register the applicants’ human-rights organisation, “The Zone of Law”, which aimed to provide legal assistance to prisoners. The Court found overall that there had been a lack of detailed guidelines on […]

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Ban on peaceful demonstration. The lack of a clear legal basis for the ban violated freedom of assembly

JUDGMENT Cheremskyy v. Ukraine 07.12.2023 (app. no.  20981/13) see here SUMMARY The Executive Committee of the Kharkiv City Council asked the local court to prohibit the peaceful demonstration that the applicant intended to hold under the banner “Ukraine for Fair Elections” in a park in the city centre. The local authorities and the courts based […]

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ECHR application for the prohibition to hold a pblic event due to COVID before domestic remedies are exhausted. Inadmissible application

JUDGMENT Communauté genevoise d’action syndicale (CGAS)  v. Switzerand 30.11.2023  (app. no. 21881/20) see here SUMMARY The applicant is an association which defends the interests of workers and its members’ organisations, in particular in the field of trade union and democratic freedoms. During the restrictive measures in the wake of the covid 19 pandemic, the authorities […]

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Arrest and conviction of protesters who were demonstrating peacefully for the eviction of squatters. Violation of freedom of assembly

JUDGMENT Laurijsen and others v.  the Netherlands 21.11.2023 (app. no.. 56896/17, 56910/17, 56914/17, 56917/17 and 57307/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a protest against the eviction of a squat at Passeerdersgracht in Amsterdam. The applicants were arrested for blockading the road in front of and near the squat and summonsed for disturbing public order […]

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

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 […]

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