JUDGMENT Nasirov and others v, Azerbaijan 20.02.2020 (no. 58717/10) see here SUMMARY The applicants are nationals of Azerbaijan and Jehovah’s Witnesses. All the applicants were transferred to police stations after attempting to preach door to door on their religion, and were held administratively without official registration for at least 3 hours because of distributing religious […]
JUDGMENT Papageorgiou and others v. Greece 31.10.2019 (no. 4762/18 and 6140/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned compulsory religious education in Greek schools. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education) to the European Convention on Human Rights, interpreted […]
JUDGMENT Mushfig Mammadov and others v. Azerbaijan 17.10.2019 (no. 14604/08) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ refusal on religious grounds to serve in the army. The Court observed that the criminal prosecutions and convictions of the applicants on account of their refusal to perform military service had stemmed from the fact that there […]
JUDGMENT Pantelidou v. Greece 10.10.2019 (no. 36267/19) see here SUMMARY Transformation of a public property into a place of worship and the right to religious freedom. The applicant, who is a member of the Church of True Orthodox Christians, alleged that her right to religious was violated because it was forbidden for her religious community to […]
JUDGMENT Religious Community of Jehovah’s Witnesses of Kryvyi Rih’s Ternivsky District v. Ukraine (no. 21477/10) 03.09.2019 see here SUMMARY Licensing to a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses to rebuild their place of worship. Failure to take legal action by the city council. The applicant community of Jehovah’s Witnesses has appealed before the domestic courts to declare as […]
JUDGMENT Tothpal and Szabo v. Romania 19.02.2019 (no. 28617/13 and 50919/13) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a conviction for unlawful exercise of pastoral duties. State measures in favour of the leader of a divided religious community or geared to forcing that community to combine under a single leader amounted to an infringement of freedom of religion. In […]
JUDGMENT Lachiri v. Belgium 18.09.2018 (no. 3413/09) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mrs Lachiri’s exclusion from a courtroom on account of her refusal to remove her hijab. The Court found that the exclusion of Mrs Lachiri – an ordinary citizen, not representing the State – from the courtroom had amounted to a “restriction” on […]
JUDGMENT Bektashi Community and others v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” 12.04.2018 (νο. 48044/10, 75722/12 and 25176/13) see here SUMMARY Religious Union has demanded recognition of its continued legal status under the new legislation and its request was rejected by the national courts. Infringement of Article 11 (freedom of assembly) in the light of Article […]
JUDGMENT Mockutė v. Lithuania 27.02.2018 (no. 66490/09) see here SUMMARY Hospitalization for psychiatric disorders against the patient’s will. A documentary about her medical file with the use of a pseudonym. Doctor of the Psychiatric Hospital revealed sensitive confidential information and information to her journalists about her illness, which had the effect of interfering with […]
JUDGMENT A.R. and L.R. v. Switzerland 18/1/2018 (no. 22338/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerns the refusal by a Basle primary school to grant Ms A.R’s request that her daughter, then aged seven and about to move up to the second year of primary school, be exempted from sex education lessons. The Court found the […]
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