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Ill-treatment of Avars by Chechens who were abducted, illegally detained, beaten and some of them disappeared. Violation of important rights of the ECHR

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28/06/2021 19:08

JUDGMENT Adzhigitova and others v. Russia 22.06.2021 (app. no. 40165/07 and 2593/08) see here SUMMARY In retaliation for an investigated violent incident, Chechen soldiers stormed Avar homes, abducted many of them, took them to public places, and mistreated them. Some of them disappeared after the end of the operation. The Court found that racial prejudice […]

Extradition of a seriously ill person without a health risk assessment would lead to a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment

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24/06/2021 18:44

JUDGMENT Khachaturov v. Armenia 24.6.21 (no. 59687/17) see here SUMMARY Extradition and prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment. Domestic decision of extradition of the applicant, who has serious health problems due to stroke, from Armenia to Russia. Inability to travel, even under medical supervision, due to his serious health condition. The ECtHR emphasized the importance […]

Child murder by a violent husband and father. The authorities had taken precautionary measures to protect the life of the applicant and her children

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18/06/2021 18:54

JUDGMENT Kurt v. Austria 15.6.2021 (app. no. 62903/15) see here SUMMARY Right to life and domestic violence. The applicant complained that the Austrian authorities had failed to protect her and her children from her violent husband, which resulted in the murder of their son. The child received a bullet in the head from his father, […]

The allegations of the state authorities for the attempted suicide of a prisoner and not for homicide were not convincing. Violation of the right to life.

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24/05/2021 19:05

JUDGMENT Lapshin v. Azerbaijan 20.5.2021 (app. no 13527/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an incident during the applicant’s imprisonment in Azerbaijan in 2017 for having crossed the State border outside the checkpoints during journeys to Nagorno-Karabakh, and the ensuing inquiry by the prosecutor’s office into the incident. The authorities asserted that the incident had […]

Withdrawal of treatment of a 5-year-old girl who was in a coma, due to the lack of prospects of improvement, did not violate her right to life, nor the right to privacy of herself and her mother.

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22/04/2021 17:07

JUDGMENT Parfitt v. the United Kingdom 21.4.2021 (no. 18533/21) see here SUMMARY Withdrawal of treatment for a five-year-old girl, who was in a permanent coma. Her mother complained that any interruption in her treatment that would keep her alive would violate her daughter’s rights and that national courts that ruled otherwise did not take sufficient […]

Shepherds were killed due to unjustified use of force by police! Violation of the essential and procedural part of the right to life

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02/04/2021 19:13

JUDGMENT Gasangusenov v. Russia 30.03.2021 (app. no. 78019/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the killing of the applicant’s two sons, who worked as shepherds, during a special operation carried out by State agents in August 2016 in Goor-Khindakh, Dagestan (Russia). It also concerned the ensuing investigation. The Court found that the applicant’s sons had […]

The conviction of a systematic offender of the Road Traffic Regulation for the death of a motorcyclist to a sentence less than the threshold of the sentence and its delayed execution violated the procedural part of the right to life!

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31/03/2021 18:10

JUDGMENT Smiljanić v. Croatia 25.03.2021 (app. no. 35983/14) see here SUMMARY A motorcycle driver was killed in a car accident after a collision with a well-known businessman in Zagreb, after an illegal crossing at a red light by the latter. The businessman had committed about 35 violations of the Road Traffic Regulations offenses in a […]

Hanging of a prisoner with a rubber band from his pants. No responsibility of the Russian authorities. The right to life was not violated

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23/03/2021 18:19

JUDGMENT Kotenok v. Russia 23.03.2021 (app. no. 50636/11 ) see here SUMMARY Hanging of a prisoner with the rubber from his pants in his cell. Archieve of his relatives’ lawsuit for his death and rejection of the compensation lawsuit. Allegations that the Russian authorities had not taken all necessary measures to protect the life of […]

Death in prison of a psychiatric patient. Failure to take appropriate protection measures and incomplete investigation. Violation of the right to life

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18/03/2021 09:18

JUDGMENT Laptev v. Russia 09.02.2021 (app. no. 36480/13) see here SUMMARY Right to life and protection during detention. Psychiatric patient. Obligations of authorities to protect life. Substantive and procedural part of Article 2. The applicant brought an action for breach of the right to life in the substantive and procedural part due to the death […]

Special legal obligation of the authorities for the protection of minors as a vulnerable group. Drowning of a minor in a camp and ineffective search. Violation of the procedural part of the right to life

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10/03/2021 18:19

JUDGMENT Veronica Ciobanu v. Democracy of Moldova 04.02.2021 (app. no. 69829/11) see here SUMMARY Protection of minors. Drowning of a minor living in a state camp. Ineffective research. Procedural and substantive part of the right to life. The applicant’s minor son drowned while on holiday at a public children’s camp in Romania. The Moldovan domestic […]

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