A Blog on International Justice
On the occasion of the Opening of the Judicial Year at the European Court of Human Rights, Judge Theodor Meron, ICTY President, gave an enriching lecture on the relationship, historical and contemporary, between international criminal justice and human rights law. A link to that speech is provided here. Share this:
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted the application of the members of the Bosnian association “Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa ”. The women had lodged an application against the Netherlands following a ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court in April which had granted absolute immunity from prosecution to Dutch UN peacekeepers who were [...]
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” responsible for torture, ill-treatment and secret rendition of Khaled El-Masri. The case was brought before the ECtHR by Mr. El-Masri, a German national of Lebanese origin, who complained that he had been a victim of a secret “rendition” operation during [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will be holding a hearing in the case Maktouf and Damjanovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 December 2012. The case concerns complaints brought by two men about the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, established in 2000 as a result of the international peace process, which convicted them of [...]
The European Court of Human Rigths (ECtHR) held a public hearing last week in the case of Tymoshenko v. Ukraine. The case concerns Yuliya Tymoshenko, the leader of Batkivshchyna, the main opposition party in Ukraine, and former Prime Minister in 2005 and between December 2007 and March 2010. Ms Tymoshenko was convicted of abuse of [...]
Earlier this week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its judgment in the case of Lutsenko v Ukraine, concerning the former Minister of the Interior of the Ukrainian Government headed by Yulia Tymoshenko and leader of the opposition party Narodna Samooborona. Mr. Lutsenko is currently detained in Kyiv and was convicted on 27 [...]
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its judgment in the case of Kurić and Others v. Slovenia, brought before the Court by the so-called “erased” people in Slovenia. The Court found there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life (Article 8), of the right [...]
On Wednesday 13 June 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held a hearing in the case of Georgia v. Russia (Application no. 13255/07). The case concerns the alleged harassment of the Georgian immigrant population in the Russian Federation in autumn 2006, following the arrest of four Russian officers in Tbilisi, Georgia on suspicion [...]
The five-judge panel of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled this Wednesday that, although Abu Qatada’s appeal had been lodged in time, “the request should be refused”. The judges declined to explain their decision which was announced by a brief press release. Abu Qatada had filed an appeal on 17 April contesting the [...]
On 17 April, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) received a request for referral to the Grand Chamber from Omar Othman, better known as Abu Qatada. In its 17 January judgment, the Court had rejected the claim that Abu Qatada was risking torture if deported to Jordan but held that he could not be [...]
The Brighton Declaration concerning reform of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been formally adopted yesterday by all 47 members’ states of the Council of Europe. The 2-day conference was organized as part of the United Kingdom’s 6-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. Following on from similar events held [...]
Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn, Berlin 1943. Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its judgment in the case of Janowiec and others v. Russia, concerning the 1940 Katyń massacre. The events go back to World War II, following annexation of Polish territory by the USSR in September 1939. In April and May [...]