The applicant’s presence in Russia was declared undesirable on the basis of undisclosed national security reasons, and his re-entry into the country was banned for thirty-five years. On account of the applicant’s failure to comply with the prescribed time limit…
CASE OF PALFREEMAN v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 840/18
The case concerns allegations, under Article 3 of the Convention, that a foreign prisoner was hit (including with truncheons), kicked and pushed by prison guards without justification, and that the investigation of that incident was not independent and thorough. FOURTH…
CASE OF FRISON v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 57614/17
The case concerns the authorities’ refusal to issue the applicant a temporary residence permit in Russia due to undisclosed security reasons and the applicant’s unsuccessful appeals against this refusal in the domestic courts. THIRD SECTION CASE OF FRISON v. RUSSIA…
CASE OF DIMOV AND OTHERS v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 45660/17 and 13 others – see appended list
The case concerns complaints under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention that the applicants had been unable to vote while effectively serving prison sentences. FOURTH SECTION CASE OF DIMOV AND OTHERS v. BULGARIA (Applications nos. 45660/17 and…
CASE OF NEPOMNYASHCHIKH v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 51118/16
The case concerns the applicant’s criminal conviction for acts of mass disorder and violence against the police during the suppression of a demonstration at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012. THIRD SECTION CASE OF NEPOMNYASHCHIKH v. RUSSIA (Application…
CASE OF MEN v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 11338/15
The present case concerns the two-year exclusion of the applicant, a long-term migrant in Russia, for three administrative offences of exceeding speed limit and the authorities’ failure to duly assess the proportionality and necessity of that measure and its adverse…
CASE OF NEDELCHEV v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 30543/13
The case concerns a complaint under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that, in judicial proceedings concerning the applicant’s dismissal on disciplinary grounds, the Supreme Administrative Court failed to respond to a key argument put forward by him. FOURTH…
CASE OF TSUROYEV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 8372/07 and 2 others – see appended list
The applicants were arrested and subsequently convicted of having participated in a massive armed attack in Nazran, Ingushetia, in June 2004. They alleged, among other things, that they had been ill-treated by State agents and that they had been convicted…
CASE OF MIHU AND OPREA v. ROMANIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 54983/16 and 59295/16
The case concerns the applicants’ allegations, made under Article 5 § 1 of the Convention, that they were unlawfully deprived of their liberty from 8.30 a.m. on 6 April 2016 to 3 a.m. on 7 April 2016 (Ms Mihu – “the first applicant”) and…
CASE OF DIJKHUIZEN v. THE NETHERLANDS (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 61591/16
The case concerns the applicant’s complaint under Article 6 of the Convention that he was prevented from attending the appeal hearing in his criminal case, whether in person or by videoconference, and thereby from exercising the rights of the defence.…