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ECHR will continue considering claims against Russia

The suspension of Russia's membership in the Council of Europe (CE) will not lead to the exclusion of the Russian judge from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). This explanation was given by the Council of Europe in a published statement regarding Russia. The country continues to maintain membership in the organization, and communication channels will remain open. Petr Tolstoy, who heads the delegation ...

ECHR OBLIGED RUSSIA TO PAY € 450 THOUSAND TO THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Last Tuesday, the website of the ECHR published the court's decision on the claims of four women who were subjected to domestic violence in Russia. Each of them was awarded monetary compensation, the aggregate amount of which exceeded € 450 thousand. The maximum payment was given to ...

ECHR will consider a complaint from Russia about forced ‘circumcision’ of girls

... the city of Magas (Ingushenia), performing a clitorectomy on an 11-year-old girl. Representative of the ‘Legal Initiative’ (on December 13, 2019, the organization, located in Nazran, was recognized a foreign agent) Tatyana Savvina, who applied to the ECHR, considers this practice to violate a number of provisions of the Convention on Human Rights. In particular, she notes that it is the responsibility of the state to effectively investigate reports of such operations, which WHO calls ‘mutilation’....

RESIDENTS OF DAGESTAN APPLIED TO ECHR FOR JUSTICE DUE TO THE LOSS OF PROPERTY

... there was no document on the consent or seizure of land plots. The courts, in turn, either cannot determine the proper defendant or altogether refer to the omission of the statute of limitations, reports the ‘Caucasian Knot’ . The complaint sent to the ECHR states that the actions of the Russian federal officials were ineffective - they were unable to resolve the issue of paying compensations to people who suffered from waterlogging.

RELATIVES OF VICTIMS OF TU-154 AIRCRAFT CRASH NEAR SOCHI APPLIED TO ECHR FOR JUSTICE

The European Court of Human Rights accepted a complaint from plaintiffs who are relatives of the victims of the plane crash that took place near Sochi in 2016. They ask for a fair trial, and also believe that the criminal case was dropped unreasonably. According to Interfax, a complaint was filed with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 70 relatives of the victims. The plaintiffs believe that their rights have been violated under two articles: the right to a fair trial (Article 13)...

YVES ROCHER CASE: WHAT WERE NAVALNY BROTHERS CONVICTED OF?

... removed the obligation to pay the fine. In August 2017, the Federal Penitentiary Service managed to achieve an extension of the probationary period assigned to Alexey Navalny for another year (it expired on December 30, 2020). The lawyers' appeal to the ECHR led to a decision that the verdict was found unfounded, and the Russian authorities were obliged to pay compensation to the brothers in the amount of € 76,000. In the summer of 2018, the Russian government transferred 4 million rubles of compensation ...

LAWYERS OF ALEXEI NAVALNY WIIL APPEAL AGAINST THE COURT RULING

... arguments were found untenable. We should recall that the verdict in the case of Yves Rocher against Navalny in 2017 was recognized by the European Court of Human Rights as “arbitrary and unreasonable”, with a violation of the right for a fair trial. The ECHR refused to consider the issue of the political motivation of the case, but the Navalny brothers received compensation in the amount of 76 thousand euros. In 2018, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to cancel the ...

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