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The applicant’s daughter was shot, resulting in her death by her ex-partner. Systemic failure of the police to prevent domestic and gender-based violence!

Article 14
08/07/2021 18:50

JUDGMENT Tkhelidze v. Georgia 8.7.2021 (app. no. 33056/17) see here SUMMARY Failure of the Georgian authorities to protect the applicant’s daughter from domestic and sexual violence by her ex-partner, resulting in her death. Failure to conduct an effective investigation into her death. The ECtHR found that the police should have been aware that the applicant’s […]

Child murder by a violent husband and father. The authorities had taken precautionary measures to protect the life of the applicant and her children

Article 2
18/06/2021 18:54

JUDGMENT Kurt v. Austria 15.6.2021 (app. no. 62903/15) see here SUMMARY Right to life and domestic violence. The applicant complained that the Austrian authorities had failed to protect her and her children from her violent husband, which resulted in the murder of their son. The child received a bullet in the head from his father, […]

The allegations of the state authorities for the attempted suicide of a prisoner and not for homicide were not convincing. Violation of the right to life.

Article 2
24/05/2021 19:05

JUDGMENT Lapshin v. Azerbaijan 20.5.2021 (app. no 13527/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an incident during the applicant’s imprisonment in Azerbaijan in 2017 for having crossed the State border outside the checkpoints during journeys to Nagorno-Karabakh, and the ensuing inquiry by the prosecutor’s office into the incident. The authorities asserted that the incident had […]

A father shot dead his 8-year-old child in front of social workers during a session. Non-violation of the right to life due to effective investigation

Article 8
19/05/2021 19:35

JUDGMENT Penati v. Italy 11.05.2021 (app. no. 44166/15) see here SUMMARY Murder of an eight-year-old child by his father during their communication, under the supervision of social workers. Right to life and obligation of the state to prevent any tolerance for illegal acts or synergy in their commission. The applicant’s son, aged 8, was killed […]

Withdrawal of treatment of a 5-year-old girl who was in a coma, due to the lack of prospects of improvement, did not violate her right to life, nor the right to privacy of herself and her mother.

Article 2
22/04/2021 17:07

JUDGMENT Parfitt v. the United Kingdom 21.4.2021 (no. 18533/21) see here SUMMARY Withdrawal of treatment for a five-year-old girl, who was in a permanent coma. Her mother complained that any interruption in her treatment that would keep her alive would violate her daughter’s rights and that national courts that ruled otherwise did not take sufficient […]

Shepherds were killed due to unjustified use of force by police! Violation of the essential and procedural part of the right to life

Article 2
02/04/2021 19:13

JUDGMENT Gasangusenov v. Russia 30.03.2021 (app. no. 78019/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the killing of the applicant’s two sons, who worked as shepherds, during a special operation carried out by State agents in August 2016 in Goor-Khindakh, Dagestan (Russia). It also concerned the ensuing investigation. The Court found that the applicant’s sons had […]

The conviction of a systematic offender of the Road Traffic Regulation for the death of a motorcyclist to a sentence less than the threshold of the sentence and its delayed execution violated the procedural part of the right to life!

Article 2
31/03/2021 18:10

JUDGMENT Smiljanić v. Croatia 25.03.2021 (app. no. 35983/14) see here SUMMARY A motorcycle driver was killed in a car accident after a collision with a well-known businessman in Zagreb, after an illegal crossing at a red light by the latter. The businessman had committed about 35 violations of the Road Traffic Regulations offenses in a […]

Temporary suspension of procedures due to coronavirus. The Court’s first approach to pandemic problems

Article 3
30/03/2021 18:21

JUDGMENT Fenech v. Malta 30.03.2021 (app. no. 19090/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerns the aftermath of the applicant’s arrest in 2019 on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a noted Maltese journalist who was assassinated in 2017. In particular it involves his pre-trial detention during the Covid public-health emergency, precautions […]

Expertise from a surgeon and not from a gynecologist regarding a woman who passed away in a Greek hospital. Non-listing of statistics and bibliography in the expertise. Conviction for incomplete investigation!

Article 8
29/03/2021 18:28

JUDGMENT Mahmood v. Greece 25.03.2021(app.no. 77238/16) see here SUMMARY Medical negligence and the right to life. Essential and procedural part of the right to life. Right to family life. A woman died 4 days after the birth of her baby, while she was preparing to leave the hospital due to the rapid deterioration of her […]

Hanging of a prisoner with a rubber band from his pants. No responsibility of the Russian authorities. The right to life was not violated

Article 2
23/03/2021 18:19

JUDGMENT Kotenok v. Russia 23.03.2021 (app. no. 50636/11 ) see here SUMMARY Hanging of a prisoner with the rubber from his pants in his cell. Archieve of his relatives’ lawsuit for his death and rejection of the compensation lawsuit. Allegations that the Russian authorities had not taken all necessary measures to protect the life of […]

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