On 9 October 2011 the applicant was arrested with a knife in his possession by police officers on a side street, following an illegal demonstration in the Demirtaş district of Mersin. He was released the same day. On 24 October…
Category: European Court of Human Rights
CASE OF BELTSIOS v. GREECE – The case concerns an alleged violation of the presumption of innocence under Article 6 § 2 of the Convention and the alleged failure to decide “speedily” on the application for the applicant’s release under Article 5 § 4
In 2000 a contract was signed for the procurement of submarines from the German consortium H.-F. by the Hellenic Shipyards for a total value exceeding 1,3 billion euros (EUR). In 2002 another contract was signed for the repair of submarines…
CASE OF NADİR YILDIRIM AND OTHERS v. TÜRKİYE – 39712/16. The applicants complained of a breach of their right to be presumed innocent under Article 6 § 2 of the Convention
In 2007 the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal investigation into suspected links between certain individuals, including the applicants, and the activities of the KCK/TM (Koma Civakên Kurdistan – The Kurdistan Communities Union/Assembly of Türkiye), which is regarded…
CASE OF SCHMIDT AND SMIGOL v. ESTONIA – The case concerns the consecutive enforcement of disciplinary punishments against the applicants and the placing of the first applicant in a locked isolation cell as a security measure
The case concerns the consecutive enforcement of disciplinary punishments against the applicants and the placing of the first applicant in a locked isolation cell as a security measure. This resulted in the applicants spending periods of differing durations under conditions…
CASE OF TADIC v. CROATIA – The case concerns criminal proceedings in which the applicant was found guilty of conspiring with several persons with a view to influencing the Supreme Court, by means of paying a sum of money, to render a decision favourable to a well-known politician who was being tried for a war crime
The applicant complained that the Supreme Court, as the appellate court in his case, had not been impartial because of the circumstances surrounding its president, who had testified as a witness for the prosecution. He also complained that the publication…
CASE OF KRACHUNOVA v. BULGARIA – 18269/18
The case concerns mainly two questions: (a) whether Article 4 of the Convention lays down a positive obligation to enable the victims of trafficking in human beings to seek compensation in respect of lost earnings from their traffickers, and (b)…
CASE OF MARIYA ALEKHINA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (No. 2) – The application concerns the refusal of the Russian authorities to register the applicants’ human rights organisation “The Zone of Law”
The applicants – two members of a punk band, Pussy Riot, and a retired official from the Russian Federal Prison Service – attempted to establish a public association, “The Zone of Law”, with the object of providing legal assistance to…
CASE OF WALESA v. POLAND – 50849/21
The case concerns proceedings in which, following the Prosecutor General’s extraordinary appeal lodged in the applicant’s defamation case, the Chamber of Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court reversed the final civil-court judgment which had been given in…
CASE OF KOMPANEYETS AND PETROSYAN v. RUSSIA – The applicants complained of inhuman or degrading treatment
The European Court of Human Rights held in Bouyid v. Belgium ([GC], no. 23380/09, §§ 81-90 and 114-23, ECHR 2015), that presumptions of fact was in favour of applicants claiming to be victims of a violation of Article 3 of…
CASE OF GRISHIN AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – The applicants complained about their confinement in a metal cage in the courtroom during the criminal proceedings against them or during the administrative proceedings to which they were a party
The European Court of Human Rights notes that the applicants were kept in a metal cage in the courtroom in the context of their trial and/or administrative proceedings to which they were a party. The Court already dealt with the…