European Court of Human Rights

Ayia Napa gang rape: EU human rights court finds UK woman faced unfair investigation

The court said that Cyprus must pay the woman 20,000 Euros and another 5,000 Euros for legal expenses.

 Women activists hold a banner in support of an allegedly raped British person outside the courthouse in Paralimni, Cyprus October 5, 2023.
 Captain Barros Basto.

Granddaughter of 'Portuguese Dreyfus' appeals to court for grandfather's reinstatement

 Marina Tauber, leader of the opposition pro-Russian political party Shor that was banned by the ruling of the Constitutional Court, speaks with journalists after a hearing in Chisinau, Moldova, June 19, 2023.

European Court of Human Rights to review legality of ban on Shor Party

The building of the European Court of Human Rights is seen ahead of the start of a hearing concerning Ukraine's lawsuit against Russia regarding human rights violations in Crimea, in Strasbourg, France, September 11, 2019

Top European rights court upholds Belgian ban on kosher slaughter


Activists protest in Turkey over life sentence for rights activist, philanthropist

Western allies have called for the release of Osman Kavala after a Turkish court found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government.

 People take part in a protest against a Turkish court decision that sentenced philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison over trying to overthrow the government in Istanbul, Turkey, April 26, 2022.

European court rules Russia was behind Litvinenko killing

Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who fled Russia, was poisoned in London in 2006.

 Alexander Litvinenko, then an officer of Russia's state security service FSB, attends a news conference in Moscow in this November 17, 1998

World’s greatest chess player defeats Russian President Putin’s censor

The legal dispute stems from 2014 after Russia illegally annexed Crimea in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the World Holocaust Forum marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem January 23, 2020

European court rules against France in Israel boycott activist case

France’s highest appeals’ court in 2015 upheld rulings that convicted campaigners on the basis of inciting racism and anti-Semitism.

The building of the European Court of Human Rights is seen ahead of the start of a hearing concerning Ukraine's lawsuit against Russia regarding human rights violations in Crimea, in Strasbourg, France, September 11, 2019

Recalibrating the course of Israel-EU relations

THE FALSE narratives about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also make the establishment of a unity government with the Center-Left impossible

The suffering of migrants in Libya: Italian mistakes and good General Haftar

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European court: Islamist hate speech not protected under law

The European Court of Human Rights has declared that the hate speech of one Belgian Muslim man is not protected under free speech laws.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France