JUDGMENT M.A. and others v. Bulgaria 20.02.2020 (no. 5115/18) see here SUMMARY The applicants belong to a Uighur minority, Muslims of Chinese nationality, residing in China. In their country of origin, they faced persecution because of their political and religious beliefs. As a result, they entered Turkey through Bulgaria, where they applied for asylum. The […]
JUDGMENT Vovk and Bogdanov v. Russia 11.02.2020 (no. 15613/10) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the authorities’ alleged failure to conduct an effective investigation into the explosion of a grenade in a residential area of Chita in April 2008 and their refusal to pay the victims compensation. The Court found that the investigating authorities had […]
JUDGMENT Baysultanov v. Russia 04.02.2020 (no. 56120/13) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a police operation to detain the leader of an illegal armed group, which resulted in the applicant’s wife being killed and the applicant being wounded. The Court found in particular that the Government had not proved that the police use of lethal […]
JUDGMENT Saribekyan and Balyan v. Azerbaijan 30.01.2020 (no. 35746/11) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the death of the applicants’ son, an Armenian citizen, while in military police detention in Azerbaijan. The European Court of Human Rights held that there had been, by five votes to two, a violation of Article 2 (right to life) […]
JUDGMENT Kušić and others v. Croatia 16.01.2020 (no. 71667/17), see here SUMMARY In their application to the European Court, the Kušić family alleged that the investigation into the death of their family members had been ineffective and that the domestic remedy suggested by the Government for their grievance, a constitutional complaint, was not effective as […]
JUDGMENT D. and others v. Romania 14.01.2020 (no. 75953/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an order for the expulsion to Iraq of an Iraqi national following his conviction in Romania for having facilitated the entry to Romania of persons involved in terrorist activities (a migrant smuggling offence). The European Court of Human Rights held, […]
JUDGMENT Styazhkova v. Russia 14.01.2020 (no. 14791/04) see here SUMMARY The case of Styazhkova v. Russia concerned the applicant’s allegation that the official explanation of suicide for her son’s death during his military service was not convincing. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: no violation of Article 2 (right […]
JUDGMENT Ν.Α. v. Finland 14.11.2019 (no. 25244/18) see here SUMMARY The Court found in particular that the Finnish authorities had not carried out a thorough enough assessment of the individual risks faced by the applicant’s father in Iraq although they had accepted his account of having faced two near deadly attacks in a context of […]
JUDGMENT O.D. v. Bulgaria 10.10.2019 (no. 34016/18) see here SUMMARY Bulgarian authorities order the deportation of a former Syrian military officer to Syria on the grounds that he was a threat to national security. In particular, the Court found that, given the overall situation in Syria and the personal risk faced by the applicant, it […]
JUDGMENT Fountas v. Greece 3-10-2019 (no. 50283/13) see here SUMMARY The police shot the applicant’s son. According to the ECtHR, the national authorities had not dealt with the case to the extent required, although they had fulfilled their obligation to carry out a thorough investigation into the killing, which led to the finding that the […]
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