The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that the Greek courts failed to acknowledge the gravity of a brutal 2001 sexual assault on an undocumented migrant.
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Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Case Watch, discrimination, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, male rape, migration, MSS v Belgium and Greece, NS and ME judgment, Rights & Justice, Simon Cox, Zontul v Greece
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In two important rulings, the European Court of Human Rights has concluded that mandatory life jail sentences without the possibility of parole do not constitute a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bary and Al Fawaz v the United Kingdom, Case Watch, European Convention of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Harkins and Edwards v the United Kingdom, Juan E. Méndez, life sentence, Marion Isobel, prisoners' rights, supermax, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Vinter and Others v the United Kingdom
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Judges in the war-crimes case against Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military leader, have turned down a bid to split it into two separate trials, despite concerns over the health prospects of the accused.
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Did the Australian government participate in the overseas detention and torture of one of its citizens? A new independent inquiry has answers.
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A decision by an African regional children’s rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals both in Africa and around the world in the battle against statelessness.
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The European Court of Human Rights overturns two separate defamation findings against journalists in Malta and Ukraine in rulings that reinforce media freedom.
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Sometimes a court conviction can be part of a cover-up, as demonstrated by two recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights that involve police abuses in Turkey and Georgia.
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Greece for holding migrants in jails designed for short-term stays, highlighting the challenge facing the European Union as a whole in addressing migration pressures.
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Two landmark cases recently confirmed that the UK's human rights obligations apply to its military conduct in Iraq, finding that Britain’s treatment of Iraqi civilians violated provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. The rulings are expected to have an impact far beyond Iraq.
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Twenty years after the break-up of the Yugoslav federation, the European Court of Human Rights is focusing on the plight of 25,000 people who were erased from Slovenia's registry of residents after the republic declared its independence.