The case concerns the refusal to grant permission to the applicants – opposition members of parliament – to use posters during an interpellation speech by one of their colleagues, and ensuing sanctions relating to the use of such posters without…
CASE OF GURBANOV v. ARMENIA – 7432/17
The application concerns the applicant’s complaints relating to the delayed return by the Armenian authorities of his son’s body. It was alleged that this amounted to inhuman treatment under Article 3 of the Convention in relation to the applicant and…
CASE OF ANDRZEJ RUCIŃSKI v. POLAND – 22716/12
The case concerns a lack of compensation for disproportionate interference by the tax authorities with the applicant’s business. In the light of the above considerations, the Court finds that the restrictions imposed on the applicant’s personal and business property for…
El-Asmar v. Denmark
Legal summary October 2023 El-Asmar v. Denmark – 27753/19 Judgment 3.10.2023 [Section IV] Article 3 Degrading treatment Inhuman treatment Effective investigation Ineffective investigation into use of pepper spray against an aggressive prisoner in an observation cell without prior warning and…
CASE OF EL-ASMAR v. DENMARK – 27753/19
On 4 April 2017, while the applicant was in prison and placed in an observation cell, two prison guards sprayed him with pepper spray. The precise circumstances were disputed. The applicant complained under the substantive and procedural aspects of Article…
CASE OF VASILE SORIN MARIN v. ROMANIA – 17412/16
The case concerns the applicant’s allegation that he was punished twice, firstly with a fine and subsequently with a criminal conviction, for the same act, in breach of his right not to be tried and punished twice for the same…
CASE OF EFGAN ÇETİN AND OTHERS v. TÜRKİYE – 14684/18
The application essentially concerns the applicants’ inability to have access to a court in order to challenge an administrative decision not requiring commissioning of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) in respect of a geothermal plant in the vicinity of the…
CASE OF BELUCH v. POLAND – 4065/21
FIRST SECTION CASE OF BELUCH v. POLAND (Application no. 4065/21) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 28 September 2023 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Beluch v. Poland, The European Court of Human Rights…
CASE OF ZHOKH v. UKRAINE – 29319/13
The application concerns an alleged denial of access to information of public interest despite a court judgment ordering the provision of the information requested. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF ZHOKH v. UKRAINE (Application no. 29319/13) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 28 September 2023 This…
CASE OF IVANOV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – 58772/18 and 9 others
The applicants complained of the torture or inhuman or degrading treatment. FOURTH SECTION CASE OF IVANOV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (Applications nos. 58772/18 and 9 others – see appended list) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 28 September 2023 This judgment is final but…