On the seventh anniversary of the violent and historic Maidan uprising in Ukraine, Europe’s human rights court on Thursday ruled that Ukrainian police and authorities committed widespread abuses against protesters.
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Russia committed several human rights violations during its brief 2008 war with the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Europe’s top rights court held Thursday.
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Europe’s top rights court heard arguments Wednesday from two Uzbek men who say they will be tortured or killed if deported from Russia to Kyrgyzstan.
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Europe’s top rights court held Tuesday that Romania violated the human rights of two transgender men by requiring sex reassignment surgery before recognizing their gender identity.
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The European Court of Human Rights told Russia on Tuesday that it’s inhuman and degrading to put prisoners in handcuffs when they are let out of their cells in maximum-security prisons.
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Vahap Keskin should have been allowed to cross-examine the witnesses who testified against him at his trial in absentia, according to the ECHR.
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The European Court of Human Rights said Thursday it will take up Ukraine’s complaint asserting Russia committed human rights abuses during the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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Turkey’s president on Wednesday accused the European Court of Human Rights of “defending a terrorist” after it ruled that Turkey must immediately release from prison a prominent Kurdish politician.
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Europe’s top rights court found that Russia was wrong to revoke a man’s nationality for not listing all of his siblings on a citizenship form.
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Three Irish women who say an outdated and controversial surgical procedure was performed on them without their consent during childbirth lost their legal battle before Europe’s top rights court Thursday.
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The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a legal complaint from a French citizen who claimed the anti-Covid 19 measures put in place by the French government were insufficient.
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The Icelandic Court of Appeal was not properly established under European law because of irregularities in judicial appointments, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.
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Europe’s human rights court on Tuesday lambasted Turkish authorities for violating a prominent investigative journalist’s rights when they tossed him in prison for months during a crackdown on people perceived to be enemies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that Switzerland had failed to sufficiently assess the risks for a gay man who was ordered to return to The Gambia after his requests for asylum and residency were rejected.
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French courts did not violate the rights of a lesbian who is barred from seeing the child she and her ex-partner had raised together, Europe’s human rights court ruled Thursday.
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Russia violated the rights of opposition politician Alexei Navalny by violently arresting him during an election protest eight years ago, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.
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The arrests and lengthy jailing of journalists with a left-wing Istanbul newspaper critical of the Turkish regime were a violation of their freedom of expression and right to liberty, Europe’s human rights court ruled Tuesday.
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At a time when dozens of members of Greece’s neo-Nazi party are going to jail, the European Court of Human Rights slammed the country on Thursday for having convicted a journalist who railed against one of the party’s supporters.
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Europe’s top human rights courts held Tuesday that Turkey was wrong to fine a leading opposition politician for criticizing the country’s strongman ruler.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday found Turkey guilty of violating the right to free speech of two academics by prosecuting them for publishing a report on minorities.
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