ECHR Decisions

Use by a state-owned company of patent without the permission of the inventor. Violation of the right to respect for property!

JUDGMENT Tokel v. Turkey  09.02.2021 (app. no.  23662/08) see here SUMMARY Property right and patent. A large company with 25 branches used the applicant’s invention relating to a belt system for drying tea. Two months before the applicant’s patent was granted, the company, taking advantage of domestic law, used the invention in its factory and […]

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Death of civilian due to airstrikes in Afghanistan. Extraterritorial jurisdiction of the ECtHR. Non-violation of the procedural part of Article 2 (right to life)

GRAND CHAMBER JUDGMENT Hanan v. Germany 16.02.2021 (app. no. 4871/16) see here SUMMARY Procedural part of the right to life and jurisdiction of the ECtHR in offenses committed outside the territory of a Contracting State. The case concerned the investigations carried out following the death of the applicant’s two sons in an airstrike near Kunduz, […]

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The signing of a decision by the President of the Court on behalf of the President who issued the decision and retired after the debate, did not violate the right to a fair trial

JUDGMENT Iancu v. Romania 23.02.2021 (app. no. 62915/17) see here SUMMARY Signing of a court decision by the President of the Supreme Court on behalf of the President of the court that adjudicated the case and issued the decision, who retired immediately after the hearing. The applicant alleged, in essence, that the signatory judge had […]

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The rejection of the defendant’s request for an oral hearing in the second instance proceedings violated her right to a fair trial

JUDGMENT Mtchedlishvili V. Georgia 25.2.2021 (app. no. 894/12) see here SUMMARY Right to be examined in the second instance proceedings. Rejection of the applicant ‘s request for an oral hearing in the context of the appeal against her conviction for customs offenses. The applicant appealed against the decision before the appellate court. Since the applicant […]

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Boycotting is a form of political speech. Criminal conviction of activists for boycotting products imported from Israel. Violation of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Baldassi and others v. France 11.06.20 (app. no. 15271/16) see here SUMMARY Activists. Boycotting and freedom of expression. The cases concerned a complaint by activists in the Palestinian cause about their criminal conviction for incitement to economic discrimination, on account of their participation in actions aimed at boycotting products imported from Israel as part […]

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Filing of a new inter state application by Ukraine against Russia before the ECHR for “targeted assassination operations” against perceived opponents!

NEW INTER STATE APPLICATION Ukraine v. Russia (app. no. 10691/21) see here The Government of Ukraine has lodged a new application with the European Court of Human Rights against the Russian Federation. The case concerns the Ukrainian Government’s allegations of an ongoing administrative practice by the Russian Federation consisting of targeted assassination operations against perceived […]

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Non-release of the well-known opposition politician Selahattin Demirtaş in Turkey. The Court orders his immediate release!

GRAND CHAMBER DECISION Selahattin Demirtaş v. Turkey 22.12.2020 (no. 2) (app. no. 14305/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Mr Selahattin Demirtaş, who at the time of the events was one of the co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing pro-Kurdish political party. The Court found in […]

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Acceptance of evidence obtained through torture or inhuman treatment by individuals violated the fair trial! First decision of the ECtHR on evidence of ill-treatment by individuals.

JUDGMENT Ćwik v. Poland 05.11.2020 (app. no.  31454/10) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Ćwik’s complaint that proceedings against him for drug-trafficking had been unfair. He complained in particular that the courts had admitted in evidence statements by a third party which had been obtained through torture by members of a criminal gang. The […]

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Jury statements to the media during and after the trial. Information regarding the jurors of the case from the internet. Violation of a fair trial due to doubts regarding the impartiality of a court

JUDGMENT Tikhonov and Khasis v. Russia 16.02.2021 (app. no.  12074/12 and 16442/12) see here SUMMARY In this case the applicants alleged that the court which had found them guilty of the murders of a lawyer and a journalist (killed in Moscow in 2009) had not been impartial. They based their allegations, among other things, on […]

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Provisional detention of opposition activists for the purpose of punishing them and suspending their activity. Conviction for violations of the ECHR

JUDGMENT Azizov and Novruzlu v. Azerbaijan 18.02.2021 (αρ. προσφ. 65583/13 και 70106/13) see here SUMMARY Provisional detention of opposition activists members of the NIDA youth organization, mainly aimed at punishing them and suspending their active participation in anti-government demonstrations. Restriction of rights for reasons other than those set out in the ECHR. The ECtHR considered […]

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