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Eviction of Ukrainian Orthodox Church from a church and chapel demolition. Rejection due to lack of risk of irreparable damage to a fundamental right.

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04/09/2020 09:18

JUDGMENT «Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea» v. Russia 01.09.2020 (app. 33931/19 and 33585/20). Interim Measures SUMMARY Eviction from a church and demolition of a chapel. Application for temporary measures by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea, so that the Russian authorities do not evict them from the cathedral in Simferopol and […]

Widow’s request for exhumation and transfer of her husband’s body to another country. Failure to consider the request violated private and family life

Article 8
19/08/2020 06:28

JUDGMENT Drašković v. Montenegro 09.06.2020 (app. no. 40597/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s wish to have her husband’s remains removed from Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which another member of the family refused to allow. The Court found in particular that such a dispute fell to be examined under both the private […]

Failure to process asylum applications and repatriation of aliens violated the ECHR

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17/08/2020 06:40

JUDGMENT Μ.Κ. and others v. Poland 23.07.2020 (app. no. 40503/17, 42902/17 and 43643/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the repeated refusal of Polish border guards on the border with Belarus to admit the applicants, who had come from Chechnya and had asked for international protection. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that […]

Father’s indifference to communicate with his child for 8 years, who developed a bond with his step father. Removal of parental responsibility. Non-violation of the right to respect for family life

Article 8
10/08/2020 19:03

JUDGMENT Ilya Lyapin v. Russia 30.06.2020 (app. no. 70879/11) see here SUMMARY Father indifference to a child for 8 years and absolutely no communication for 7 years. Respect for family life and removal of parental responsibility from the father. The applicant father had not participated in his child’s life on his own initiative for 8 […]

Political criticism for the incompatibility as a Member of Parliament and a lawyer. Sentencing for defamation violated the freedom of expression.

Article 10
29/07/2020 16:17

JUDGMENT Macovei v. Romania 28.07.2020 (no. 53028/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant being found liable for defaming another politician. The Court found in particular that the applicant’s statements, whereby she had called the other politician’s combination of work as a lawyer and as a member of parliament an example of corruption, had […]

Limited cell space less than 3 sq.m. per person, constitutes degrading treatment. Violation of Article 13 for lack of effective remedy

Article 13
24/07/2020 15:21

.UDGMENT Lautaru and Seed v. Greece 23.07.2020 (ap. no. 29760/15) see here SUMMARY Conditions of detention, supervising prοsdecutor and actual appeal. The applicants were detained in various detention facilities in a limited space of less than 3 sq.m. per person, due to overcrowding in those prisons. They also complained about unsanitary conditions, limited and inadequate […]

Dissolution of a humanitarian association for alleged propaganda in favor of terrorism. Violation of the freedom of association

Article 11
23/07/2020 06:51

JUDGMENT Adana TAYAD v. Turkey 21.07.2020 (no. 59835/10) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the dissolution of the applicant association, known as Adana TAYAD, ordered by the District Court on the grounds of illegal activities of certain members of the association’s board of directors, while the judgments handed down in the proceedings relating to those […]

The condition of adoption as recognition of the legal relationship between mother and child, born of a surrogate mother, does not constitute discrimination or violation of privacy.

Article 14
21/07/2020 06:53

JUDGMENT D. v. France 16.07.2020 (app. no. 11288/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the refusal to record in the French register of births, marriages and deaths the details of the birth certificate of a child born abroad through a gestational surrogacy arrangement in so far as the certificate designated the intended mother, who was […]

The return of the children to the father’s residence, which was their permanent place of residence, did not violate the mother’s right to family life

Article 8
18/07/2020 17:10

JUDGMENT Voica v. Romania 07.07.2020 (no. 9256/19) see here SUMMARY Custody and residence of a child. Best interests of children. The applicant moved with her children to Romania even though their place of residence and that of her ex-husband, with whom she shared custody, was France. The domestic courts ordered the return of the children […]

Establishment of a non-renewable term for judges of the Constitutional Court of Armenia. The ECtHR refuses to issue interim measures.

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15/07/2020 11:32

JUDGMENT REGARDING INTERIM MEASURES Gyulumyan and others v. Armenia 08.07.2020 (no. 25240/20) SUMMARY Non-renewable term in the constitutional court and the need to take interim measures due to impending irreparable damage to judges. In 2015, the Constitution of Armenia was revised, introducing a 12-year non-renewable term for the judges of the Constitutional Court and establishing […]

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