Tag Archive for 'ECHR'

ECtHR Judgment on Human Trafficking

As reported by Antonine Buyse here and by Aoife Nolan here, last week the European Court of Human Rights passed a decisive judgment on the issue of human trafficking in the case of Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia.
This case concerned the death of Oxana Rantseva and was brought by her father. Oxana moved from Russia on [...]

Kurdish Human Rights Project Welcomes ECtHR Judgment

KHRP today welcomed a decision from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding a case it lodged on behalf of Armenian national Maksim Gasparyan in August 2004.
In April of that year, Mr Gasparyan was arrested and detained by police in the Shengavit District for ‘disturbing public order’. Refuting this, Mr Gasparyan alleged that he [...]