JUDGMENT Alković v. Montenegro 5.12.2017 (no. 66895/10) see here SUMMARY Ethnic and religious attacks on a Roma-Muslim and his child by their neighbors. Shots, threats and crosses at his door, forced the family to move. Ineffective research. Violation of the right to respect for privacy in conjunction with a breach of the prohibition of discrimination. […]
JUDGMENT Hamidović v. Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.12.2017 (no. 57792/15) see here SUMMARY Refusal of a witness to remove his skullcap in the courtroom by order of the judge, as religious symbols were forbidden. Sentenced to a fine for disrespect of the court. The punishment imposed on him was not necessary in a democratic society. […]
JUDGMENT Adyan and others v. Armenia 12/10/2017 (no. 75604/11) see here SUMMARY Jehovah’s Witnesses and Military Service. Refusal to perform a military service or an alternative civil service. The right to conscientious objection is enshrined in Article 9 of the ECHR. The alternative military service should be purely political in nature and completely separated from the […]
JUDGMENT “Orthodox Ohrid Archdiocese (Greek-Orthodox Ohrid Archdiocese of the Peć Patriarchy)” v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (no. 3532/07) see here SUMMARY The Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid (the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid of the Patriarchate of Peć), a religious organization, filed a complaint before the ECtHR denouncing the refusal of the national authorities […]
JUDGMENT Dakir and Belgium 11-07-2017 (no. 4619/12) see here SUMMARY The applicant was born and lives in Belgium. In June 2008, the municipalities of Pepinster, Dison and Verviers adopted a municipal by law banning garments or clothes that hid the face all the time in all public places. In August 2008, the applicant, who was […]
JUDGMENT Belcacemi and Oussar v. Belgium 11-07-2017 (no. 37798/13) see here SUMMARY The case concerns the Belgian law of 1 June 2011, which prohibits the use of clothing in public spaces that partially or wholly covers the person. Ms. Belcacemi and Ms Oussar are Muslims who, on their own initiative, wear the niqab – a […]
JUDGMENT Boudelal v. France 06-07-2017 (no. 14894/14) see here SUMMARY Citizenship can not be granted unconditionally. The ECHR is not infringed by the non-granting of the French nationality to the alien applicant, having all the legal procedures been complied and there was also given a reason for not granting the citizenship. The ECtHR noted that […]
JUDGMENT Metodiev and others v. Bulgaria 15-06-2017 (no. 58088/08) see here SUMMARY Non-official registration of the religious community of Ahmadi in the book of religions of Bulgaria as a new religious community because of the deviations it had as a heresy from the Muslim community. The ECtHR found a violation of Article 9 of the ECHR […]
JUDGMENT Genov v. Βulgarie 23-03-2017 (no. 40524/08) see here SUMMARY Freedom in religion. Right to an association. The case concerned the refusal of the authorities to register the new religious association, whose president was the applicant. The court rejected the applicant’s claim that the name of the new association resembled the name of an existing […]
DECISION Moroz v. Ukraine 2-3-2017 (no. 5187/07) see here SUMMARY Family life. Right to correspondence. Religious freedom. The inability during the detention of the applicant to communicate with his relatives and to correspond with them constitutes a breach of family life and the right of correspondence of the prisoner. The ECtHR also ruled that there […]
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