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Lithuania: Soviet Repression Deemed Genocide

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the view of the national courts by ruling that partisans played a key role in protecting Lithuanian identity and that their systematic killing during the Soviet era should be considered genocide.

Lithuania , ECtHR , ECHR , European Convention of Human rights , European Court of Human Rights , USSR , partisans
April 02, 2019 • Human Rights Monitoring Institute
ECHR Condemns Romania for Refusing To Provide Education to a Detainee

In a Romanian prison, access to secondary education was refused for an inmate based on cost arguments. Read the takeaways of the related ECHR case about guaranteeing access to education for people in the penitentiary system.

Romania , detention , education , ECHR , violation , prison
March 28, 2019 • The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee
France To Pay 15,000 Euros to Migrant Child After Human Rights Breach

On 28 February the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Khan v. France, stating that France had failed to provide care to Jamil Khan, an unaccompanied 12-year-old migrant, after dismantling the Calais Jungle. This...

migration , ECHR , France , Khan v. France
March 05, 2019 • LibertiesEU
UK Mass Surveillance Challenge Heads to Human Rights Court

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear a legal challenge to the UK government’s bulk surveillance powers. The case is being brought by Liberty, Privacy International, Amnesty International...

Surveillance , UK , United Kingdom , ECHR , ECtHR , Court of Human Rights
February 07, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Human Rights Court Orders Italy to Help Migrants

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled in an urgent case filed on Monday by Berlin-based NGO Sea-Watch that Italy must provide assistance to migrants on the stranded rescue ship Sea-Watch 3. ECHR said...

Italy , ECHR , Mediterranean
January 31, 2019 • LibertiesEU
German Home School Appeal Rejected by Strasbourg Court

A German couple that refused to send their children to school have had their appeal rejected by the European Court of Human Rights. In 2012, the German State Education Authority found that the couple was "refusing to...

education , Germany , ECHR , ECtHR , Strasbourg , judiciary , court , Court of Human Rights
January 16, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Hungarian Judges Lose ECHR Early Retirement Case

The early retirement of Hungarian judges in 2011 was not against the law, the European Court of Human Rights decided on Thursday. The Strasbourg based body decided about the case originally initiated by 160 judges who...

early retirement , pension , judges , Hungary , ECHR
December 21, 2018 • LibertiesEU
Hungary Restricts People's Right to Protest

The space for public protests and assembly is severely limited under a new law recently adopted by the Hungarian Parliament.

Hungary , protest , assembly , demonstration , ECHR , ECtHR
August 16, 2018 • Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
Solutions to the Use of Racial Profiling by Police

Rights International Spain and Plataforma por la Gestión Policial de la Diversidad inform the European Court of Human Rights on the measures that should be taken to eradicate discriminatory police checks.

Spain , racial profiling , Ethnic Profiling , ECHR , Court of Human Rights
June 26, 2018 • Rights International Spain
Lithuania Violated Human Rights by Participating in CIA Secret Detention Program

The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that Lithuania cooperated with the United States in carrying out torture and other human rights violations against a suspected terrorist.

ECHR , Lithuania , Abu Zubaydah , torture , human rights violation
June 11, 2018 • Human Rights Monitoring Institute
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