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Detention of an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum in an adult center in inhumane conditions. Violations of inhuman and degrading treatment and respect for the right to privacy

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25/07/2022 07:01

JUDGMENT Darboe and Camara v. Italy 21.07.2022 (app. no. 5797/17) see here SUMMARY In June 2016, the applicants arrived in Italy on makeshift vessels, and claimed asylum as alleged unaccompanied minors. The case concerned their placement in an adult migrant centre and the age-assessment procedure that ensued. In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case, the […]

Multiple lawsuits by wife for domestic violence and menacing from her husband. Conduct of the trial 10 years after the commission of the act, resulting in the statute of limitations for the offences. Condemnation of Italy for degrading treatment

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18/07/2022 06:15

JUDGMENT M.S. v. Italy 07.07.2022 ( app. no. 32715/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the domestic violence to which the applicant was subjected by her husband. The applicant complained, in particular, that the respondent State had failed to protect and assist her. She also alleged that the authorities had not acted with the requisite […]

The prisoner’s allegations of ill-treatment by police officers, in order for him to confess, were not investigated! Condemnation of Greece for violation of the procedural part of Article 3 of the ECHR

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14/07/2022 09:28

JUDGMENT Torosian v. Greece 07.07.2022 (app. no. 48195/17) see here SUMMARY The applicant, Garik Torosian, is an Armenian national who was born in 1983 and lives in Thessaloniki. On February 16, 2015, he was arrested on a warrant issued by the investigating officer and taken into custody on charges of armed robbery, allegedly committed jointly […]

Greece awards 330,000 euros to refugees for violation of the right to life and humiliating treatment! Death of 11 people from the sinking of a fishing boat and humiliating body control of survivors!

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08/07/2022 07:14

JUDGMENT Safi and other v. Greece 07.07.2022 (app. no. 5418/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the sinking on 20 January 2014 of a fishing boat transporting 27 foreign nationals in the Aegean Sea, off the island of Farmakonisi, resulting in the death of 11 people, including relatives of the applicants. The European Court of […]

Prisoner of war in Ukraine sentenced to death by a court of the occupying forces! Interim measures by the ECtHR for non-execution of the death penalty

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25/06/2022 18:52

JUDGMENT Saadoune v. Russia and Ukraine 16.06.2022 ( app. no. 28944/22) SUMMARY The European Court of Human Rights decided to grant interim measures in the case of Saadoune v. Russia and Ukraine concerning a Moroccan national and of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who surrendered to the Russian forces during recent hostilities and has since […]

Expulsion of foreign Muslims to their country. The ECtHR was not convinced that they were at risk of ill-treatment

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23/06/2022 06:39

JUDGMENT Μ.Ν. and others v. Turkey 21.06.2022 (app. no. 40462/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the risk of the applicants being expelled from Türkiye to Tajikistan on the grounds that they did not have valid visas and would pose a threat to public safety owing to their participation in Koranic study classes that had […]

Use of handcuffs and leash on asylum seeker amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment

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02/06/2022 18:26

JUDGMENT H.M. and others v. Hungary 02.06.2022 ( app. no. 38967/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an Iraqi family’s detention in a transit zone at the border between Hungary and Serbia after fleeing Iraq. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman […]

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

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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 […]

Arson attack to an LGBT community member business and verbal attacks by homophobes. Failure of the authorities to protect a gay woman. Humiliating treatment and prohibited discrimination

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19/05/2022 06:54

JUDGMENT Oganezova v. Armenia 17.05.2022 (ap. no. 71367/12 and 72961/12) see here SUMMARY Protection of sexual orientation from discrimination. Criminal treatment of homophobes. The applicant Armenian national, a well-known member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Armenia, was forced to flee to Sweden and seek asylum for fear of persecution in […]

Multiple violations of the ECHR due to the detention and deportation of Afghan asylum seekers but also due to the death of a minor from a passing train!

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14/05/2022 13:10

JUDGMENT M.H. and others v. Croatia 18.11.2021 (app. no. 15670/18 and 43115/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the death of a six-year-old Afghan child, MAD.H., who was hit by a train after allegedly having been denied the opportunity to seek asylum by the Croatian authorities and ordered to return to Serbia via the tracks. […]

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