The applicant’s complaints under Articles 2, 3 and 5 §§ 1 (f) and 4 of the Convention concerning the risk of death and/or ill-treatment in the event of removal to Syria, absence of specific time-limits of detention pending removal and…
Category: European Court of Human Rights
CASE OF BORISOVSKIY v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 41248/17 and 75083/17
The present case concerns the placement of the applicant in metal cages and glass cabins during the criminal trial, the length of his pre-trial detention, the speediness of review of a detention order and the restrictions on family visits. THIRD…
CASE OF RUDYKH AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 55659/14 and 13 others
The case concerns different aspects of detention of the applicants convicted to life imprisonment and in particular their regular handcuffing. THIRD SECTION CASE OF RUDYKH AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (Applications nos. 55659/14 and 13 others – see appended lists) JUDGMENT…
CASE OF AZARSANOV AND BOROKOV v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 63160/13 and 33661/14
Between 2011 and 2012 the applicants were prosecuted and convicted for different criminal offences. Their convictions were notably based on their confession statements made shortly after their de facto apprehension by police but before they had been granted the formal…
CASE OF ANZINA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 60757/12 and 3 others
The applicants in the present four cases complained that they had been convicted of drug-related offences which they had committed only because they had been incited to do so by agent provocateurs. Some applicants also complained that they had not…
CASE OF LITVINOVICH v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 43038/11
The case originated in the application (no. 43038/11) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Russian national, Mr Vitaliy Andreyevich…
CASE OF IVANOV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 62082/10 and 6 others
The applicants in the present seven cases complained that they had been convicted of bribe-related offences which they had committed only because they had been incited to do so by agent provocateurs. Some applicants also complained that they had been…
Advisory opinion on the difference in treatment between landowners’ associations “having a recognised existence on the date of the creation of an approved municipal hunters’ association” and landowners’ associations set up after that date
By a decision of 15 April 2021, sent by a letter of the same date, the French Conseil d’État requested the European Court of Human Rights, under Article 1 of Protocol No. 16 to the Convention for the Protection of…
CASE OF BRYANSK-TULA DIOCESE OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX FREE CHURCH v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 32895/13
The case concerns the dissolution of the Bryansk and Tula Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Free Church (Брянско-Тульское Епархиальное управление Российской Православной Свободной Церкви) – a religious organisation registered under Russian law in 1995 in the Bryansk Region (“the applicant…
CASE OF KOTLYAR v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 38825/16 and 2 others
The case concerns the commission of migration law offences by the applicant in protest against what was perceived as Russia’s restrictive system of residence registration. THIRD SECTION CASE OF KOTLYAR v. RUSSIA (Applications nos. 38825/16 and 2 others – see list…