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Ban on exiting the country for journalists, without being accused or suspected, but witnesses! Violation of freedom of movement

JUDGMENT GANBAROVA and others v. Azerbaijan 21.09.2023 (app. 1158/17 and 2 others) see here SUMMARY Travel bans imposed on the applicant journalists in the context of a criminal investigation into the activities of an online channel with which they had collaborated. The applicants, without having been convicted, and without having the status of an accused […]

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The reduction of the use of the Russian language in Latvian public schools did not violate the ECHR

JUDGMENT Valiullina and others v. Latvia 14.09.2023 (app. no. 56928/19, 7306/20 and 11937/20) see here SUMMARY Legislative changes in Latvia increased the proportion of subjects taught in public schools in Latvian, the country’s only official language, and thus reduced the use of Russian as the language of instruction. The right enshrined in Article 2 of […]

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Violation of the presumption of innocence of an accused former minister by televised statements by the Minister of Justice

JUDGMENT Bavcar v. Slovenia 07.09.2023 (app. no. 17053/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned, Mr Bavčar, a former Government minister, who was found guilty of money laundering in 2016. The case concerned appeal proceedings during which the then Minister of Justice Goran Klemenčič had given a television interview captioned “Mr Klemenčič: If the Bavčar case […]

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Authorities’ refusal to reveal donors’ gamete in assisted reproduction births did not violate privacy

JUDGMENT Gauvin–Fournis and Silliau v. France 07.09.2023 (app. no. 21424/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the inability, alleged by the applicants, who were born in the 1980s by means of medically assisted procreation (MAP) using third-party donors, to access information concerning the respective donors. This situation had lasted until 1 September 2022, when a […]

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Eight years for issuing a final civil decision! The credibility of the judicial system was undermined and the right of due process was violated

JUDGMENT Vanden Kerkhof v. Belgium 05.09.2023 (app. no. 13630/19) see here SUMMARY Correct and speedy administration of justice. The appellant had brought an action in the Belgian courts for annulment of a contract of sale. His case is pending in the appellate court and no decision has been issued after almost 8 years. The applicant […]

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Compensation against a broadcasting company for broadcasting news about vaccines against a Minister. Violation of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Radio Broadcasting Company B92 AD v. Serbia (application no. 67369/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned civil proceedings brought against the applicant broadcasting company by a former assistant health minister for its reporting in 2011 that she had been suspected of abuse of office, amid an ongoing controversy over the procurement of swine flu […]

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Child born from surrogate mother. Violation of family life by refusing to recognize the legal relationship of the custodial parents

JUDGMENT C. v. Italy 31.08.2023  (app. no. 47196/21) see here SUMMARY The applicant was born from a surrogate mother, with an ovum from an unknown donor and with the sperm of her biological father, who and his wife assumed her parental care. The case concerned the refusal of the Italian authorities to recognize the legal […]

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The conviction of a senior official of Greek Orthodox Church for an offensive article he published against homosexuals did not violate the freedom of expression. The application is inadmissible

JUDGMENT Lenis v. Greece 31.08.2023 (app. no. 47833/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Lenis’s posting of a homophobic article on his personal blog in December 2015, when the Greek Parliament had been about to debate proposed legislation introducing civil unions for same-sex couples, and his subsequent prosecution and sentencing for incitement to hatred […]

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Violent Cossack attack on the band PussyRiot at the Winter Olympics! Degrading treatment and violation of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Verzilov and others v. Russia 29.08.2023 (app. no. 25276/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the Pussy Riot punk band’s complaint that they had been attacked by Cossacks while performing a new song in Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics. They had been grabbed, pushed and pulled, lashed at with a whip and had […]

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Banning of the prefix “von” in applicants’ surnames, after a long period of use. Violation of respect for privacy

JUDGMENT Künsberg Sarre v. Austria  17.01.2023 (app.  no. 19475/20) see here SUMMARY The applicants are all members of the same family (two brothers, a husband and a son). They have the surname “von Künsberg Sarre”, which was first used by their distant ancestor when he went to America in 1961. The domestic authorities ex officio […]

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