Owning stock in a collapsing Icelandic bank may have affected the impartiality of judges in a trial of one of the bank’s top executives, the European Court of Human Rights found Tuesday.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Bulgaria to halt its deportation of a group of Uighur refugees, on the grounds that they could be tortured or killed by Chinese authorities.
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In a reversal, Europe’s human rights court on Thursday found Spain did not violate the rights of two African asylum-seekers when it sent them back to Morocco after they climbed a border fence around a Spanish enclave in North Africa.
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A murder case stemming from the Bosnian War should be heard in a Croatian court, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
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Two journalists fined by an Italian court for defamation after they reported that a 1980 terror attack could have been prevented won damages Thursday for violations of their rights.
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The refusal of Lithuanian authorities to prosecute online threats made against two gay men after a photo of them kissing amounts to a human rights violation, the European Court of Human Rights held Tuesday.
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Russia did not give fair trials to the country’s former richest man and a second man who criticized President Putin, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights found Russia violated its citizens’ right to freedom of assembly and expression in a pair of rulings Tuesday.
Read moreProtections for freedom of speech extend into the workplace, the European Court of Human Rights clarified Tuesday in the case of a bank employee fired for writing online articles about human resources issues.
Read moreThe Greek government cannot require parents to declare they are not Orthodox Christians to exempt their children from religious studies, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of a Kurdish activist by not giving her a fair trial after her speech-related arrest.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that it will not hear French supermarket giant Carrefour’s challenge to fines levied against a now-dissolved legal entity that was taken over in a merger.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Jehovah’s Witnesses in Azerbaijan cannot be forced to serve in the military.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that denying journalists access to centers for asylum seekers violates their right to freedom of expression.
Read moreSettling a years-long dispute, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that denying the Holocaust happened is not protected expression under Europe’s human rights convention.
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The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Bosnia to remove a Serbian Orthodox church that it says was illegally built on land owned by a Bosnian Muslim war widow after she and her family were forced to flee their village during the country’s 1992-95 war.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the CEO of a Hungarian oil and gas company cannot bring his fight against Croatia prosecutors to the court because he hasn’t exhausted his legal options in the Croatian judicial system.
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Russia and Ukraine met once again in court Wednesday to present evidence in another case stemming from the annexation of Crimea.
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Russian prison guards, doctors and criminal investigators violated the human rights of Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old tax expert and lawyer whose death in prison 10 years ago became a cause célèbre.
Read moreWading into the fray of what many call a constitutional crisis, the European Court of Human Rights asked Poland on Wednesday to answer whether purported judicial reforms – in this case appointing judges to a judicial watchdog board rather than allowing the judiciary to elect them – violates the civil rights of judges thrown off the board.
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