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Police restraint of demonstrators violated their right to freedom of movement, expression and assembly

JUDGMENT Auray and others v. France  08.02.2024 (app. no. 1162/22) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ containment for several hours on Place Bellecour in Lyons on 21 October 2010, during a demonstration against a pension reform bill. Having noted that the reason for cordoning off Place Bellecour had been to separate and contain […]

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Jehovah’s Witness arrested and religious books confiscated. Violation of religious freedom

JUDGMENT Hamzayan v. Armenia 06.02.2024 (app. no.  43082/14) see here SUMMARY The applicant lives in Yerevan. She is a Jehovah’s Witness. On 23 February 2013 the applicant and her friend, A.H., visited interested persons in the town of Shushi to discuss the Bible, including an elderly woman, N., with whom A.H. was acquainted and who […]

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Publication of the name of an alleged victim of sexual abuse by the alleged rapist in a book he published. No violation of the right of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Ramadan  v. France 01.02.2024 ( app. no. 23443/23) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s conviction for having disseminated information about the identity of the presumed victim of a rape for which he was facing trial. The Court noted that the domestic courts had clarified the concept of a “victim” for the purposes […]

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Judge participated in the examination of an appeal on points of law, despite having served as head of the Attorney General’s Office during the period when his subordinate prosecutors brought the appeal on points of law in question. Breach of objective impartiality

JUDGMENT Ugulava v. Georgia (no. 2) 01.02.2024 (app. no. 22431/20) see here SUMMARY In December 2013, the applicant, a politician, who at the time was acting as Mayor of Tbilisi, was charged with aggravated embezzlement. In January 2019, two prosecutors of the General Prosecutor’s Office appealed against the appellate decision to the Supreme Court. The […]

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Significant delay in processing claims for compensation for confiscated property. Violation of due process

JUDGMENT Kokalari v. Albania 30.01.2024 (app. no.  22493/12) see here SUMMARY In the 1940s several plots of land in Fier were seized by the Pesh family. The heirs filed petitions for restitution and compensation for the properties, but these petitions were filed. The process was continued, up to the ECHR, by the legal heirs from […]

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Ill treatment and injury of a prisoner by prison officers. Conviction for inhuman and degrading treatment

JUDGMENT Miljak  v. Croatia 16.01.2024 (app. no. 15681/18) see here SUMMARY Ill treatment of a prisoner by prison officials and lack of effective investigation into the incident. The applicant was randomly selected for a search of his cell. While he was warned not to touch anything in the cell during the search he asked if […]

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The revocation of the licence of a church whose priest joined the Old Calendarists did not violate religious freedom

JUDGMENT DIETHNIS AKADIMIA AGIOS KOSMAS O AITOLOS v. Greece (App. no. 9025/15) SUMMARY The applicant retained the right of common use of the church, which it had otherwise donated as real estate to the municipality. A few years after the opening of the church, the president of the applicant organisation joined the Old Calendarist Church. By […]

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Disclosure of sensitive personal data of HIV-positive persons following a public prosecutor’s order and without their consent. Violation of private life

JUDGMENT O.G.  and others v. Greece 23.01.2024 (app. no. 71555/12 and 48256/13) see here SUMMARY The case of O.G. and Others v. Greece (applications nos. 71555/12 and 48256/13) concerned the publication, by decision of the domestic authorities, of medical data concerning prostitutes who had been diagnosed as HIV-positive, and media coverage of them. It also […]

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Criminal conviction of a defendant for defamation following allegations of sexual harassment of her superior. Violation of the right of freedom of expression

JUDGMENT Allée v. France 18.01.2024 (app. no. 20725/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s criminal conviction for public defamation following her allegations of harassment and sexual assault against a senior executive of the non-profit association where she worked. The claims had been sent by email to six people from both inside and outside […]

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A minor was classified as an adult in a migrant camp. Condemnation of Greece for lack of procedural guarantees for age determination and for degrading conditions

JUDGMENT T.K. v. Greece 18.01.2024 (app. no. 16112/20) see here SUMMARY The applicant, upon his arrival at a camp in Samos, was registered as an adult. The applicant claimed that he had produced a copy of a birth certificate where the date of birth proved that he was a minor at the relevant time. However, […]

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