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The detention of a Supreme Judge in Turkey was illegal and violated the right to freedom and security. Important decision .

Article 5
17/04/2019 19:08

JUDGMENT Alparslan Altan v. Turkey 16-04-2019 (no. 12778/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the detention of a Turkish Constitutional Court judge following the attempted coup of 15 July 2016. Mr Altan was deprived of his liberty primarily on suspicion of membership of an armed terrorist organisation, FETÖ/PDY. The Constitutional Court found that this constituted […]

Arbitrary detention of an eight year old child in a police station for a whole day. Violation of the right to freedom and security

Article 5
13/04/2019 14:39

JUDGMENT Tarak and Depe v. Turkey 09.04.2019 (no. 70472/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the detention of an eight-year-old child, Birtan Sinan Depe. He was taken to a police station following a search carried out at the home of neighbour to whom his mother had entrusted him. He was detained alone in the station […]

House arrest of an activist and over-limitations in his communication. Violation of the right to freedom and freedom of expression

Article 10
10/04/2019 17:16

JUDGMENT Navalnyy v. Russia 09.04.2019 (n. 2) (no. 43734/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Navalnyy being held under house arrest during a criminal investigation against him and the restrictive measures imposed on him during that time. The Court found that the house-arrest order had not been justified, particularly in view of the fact […]

Preventive detention for the protection of public order during the royal wedding in the UK was legitimate and did not violate the ECHR!

Article 5
01/04/2019 19:05

JUDGMENT Eiseman-Renyard v. United Kingdom 28.03.2019 (no. 57884/17, 57918/17, 58019/17, 58326/17, 58333/17, 58343/17, 58377/17 and 58462/17) see here PROVISION Article 5 SUMMARY Preventive detention for the protection of public order at the royal wedding. Complain the applicants about their arrest and detention for several hours on 29 April 2011 in various parts of central London […]

Keeping prisoners in the cells for 23 hours a day is a degrading treatment. Temporary detention legislation must accurately stipulate its duration

Article 13
29/03/2019 17:16

JUDGMENT Bigović v. Montenegro 19.03.2019 (no. 48343/16) see here SUMMARY Degrading conditions of detention. A prisoner sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for murdering an investigator remained for 23 hours a day locked in his cells and the only regular activity outside the cell was exercise for one hour a day. Lack of adequate provision for […]

Information of the Afghan immigrants in the island of Chios in Greek that they could appeal against deportation to an administrative court without specifying which court was i and where it was, since in Chios such a court did not exist. Violation of the ECHR

Article 3
22/03/2019 10:14

JUDGMENT O.S.A. and others v. Greece 21.03.2019 (no. 39065/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ conditions of detention in the Vial centre on the island of Chios, and the issues of the lawfulness of their detention, the courts’ review of their case, and the information provided to them. The Court considered that, in […]

Video, Dance and YouTube. The Court revises the substance of the case and disagrees with the judgment of the national courts that a criminal offense has been committed! An important decision that opens new ways for a fair trial!

Article 5
11/03/2019 15:32

JUDGMENT Rustamzade v. Azerbaijan 07-03-2019 (no. 38239/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a student’s arrest and detention in 2013 for allegedly filming some friends dancing in a park and uploading the video of it to YouTube. He was charged with hooliganism and spent one year in pre-trial detention. He was convicted in 2014 as […]

National legislation should provide for a specific review of the detention of a prisoner. The non-review violates Article 5 of the ECHR

Article 5
10/03/2019 19:40

JUDGMENT Šaranović v. Montenegro 05-03-2019 (no. 31775/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Šaranović’s complaints about his pre-trial detention for two and half years in Montenegro on suspicion of being behind the 2013 murder of the brother of the leader of a Serbian criminal organisation. He had allegedly arranged the murder out of revenge […]

The inconvenience of an academician in the prisons of Azerbaijan. Serious violations of the ECHR

Article 2
24/02/2019 16:32

JUDGMENT Mammadov and others v. Azerbaijan 21.02.2019 (no. 35432/07) see here SUMMARY The case Mammadov and Others v. Azerbaijan (application no. 35432/07) concerned an Azerbaijani academic who complained that he had been arrested in 2007, held in unacknowledged detention for 24 hours and then sentenced to 15 days’ administrative detention which he had spent in […]

The mentally ill prisoner must receive his treatment in the language he understands best. Treatment without hope of improvement is degrading treatment

Article 3
21/02/2019 06:44

JUDGMENT Rooman v. Belgium 31.01.2019 (no. 18052/11) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the question of the psychiatric treatment provided to a sex offender who has been in compulsory confinement since 2004 on account of the danger that he poses and the lawfulness of his detention. The European Court of Human Rights held: – by sixteen […]

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