The application concerns the use of force by the police against the applicant and the authorities’ investigation into it. THIRD SECTION CASE OF SHARKOV v. RUSSIA (Application no. 43305/07) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 11 May 2021 This judgment is final but it…
CASE OF MUTSAYEVA v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 1667/11
The case concerns alleged breaches of Article 6 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention on account of the quashing of the final judgment recognising the applicant’s ownership of a house on the grounds…
CASE OF CAAMAÑO VALLE v. SPAIN (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 43564/17
The application concerns the right to vote of the applicant’s daughter, placed under partial guardianship owing to her intellectual disability. The applicant relied on Article 3 of Protocol No. 1, read alone or in conjunction with Article 14 of the…
CASE OF EPURE v. ROMANIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 73731/17
The application, lodged under Article 3 of the Convention, concerns the domestic authorities’ allegedly inadequate response to the applicant’s medical needs while in detention, in particular having regard to the state of his mental health. FOURTH SECTION CASE OF EPURE…
CASE OF YOCHEVA AND GANEVA v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 18592/15 and 43863/15
The case concerns the applicants’ complaints of discrimination against them as single mothers caring for their minor children whose fathers are unknown, based on the refusal of the authorities to grant the applicants payment of a family allowance provided to…
CASE OF KILIN v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 10271/12
The present case concerns the applicant’s criminal conviction for public calls to violence and ethnic discord on account of video and audio files that had been made accessible via a social-network account. THIRD SECTION CASE OF KILIN v. RUSSIA (Application…
CASE OF RID NOVAYA GAZETA AND ZAO NOVAYA GAZETA v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 44561/11
The applicants alleged, in particular, that the caution procedure used against them under the anti-extremist legislation had amounted to an unlawful and disproportionate interference with their right to freedom of expression and that they had had no effective remedies in…
F.O. v. Croatia (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 250 April 2021 F.O. v. Croatia – 29555/13 Judgment 22.4.2021 [Section I] Article 8 Article 8-1 Respect for private life Inadequate response of domestic authorities to a high school teacher’s verbal abuse of a student: violation Facts – The…
CASE OF YEVDOKIMOV v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 24635/14
The applicant complained about the failure to disclose to the defence the court decisions authorising covert surveillance measures against him and admission in evidence against him of the statements of attesting witnesses absent from the trial. He invoked Article 6…
CASE OF POLTORATSKYY v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 11551/13
The case concerns the alleged lack of any genuine prospect of the applicant’s release in view of his life-imprisonment sentence (Article 3); the restrictions on his right to family visits during his sentence (Article 8); and the lack of effective domestic…