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Hearing

16/05/2012

Hearing The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case El-Masri v. “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.

The applicant in this case, a German national of Lebanese origin, alleges that he was arrested and tortured in Skopje because he was suspected of belonging to a terrorist organisation, and complains about his rendition by the CIA to a secret detention centre in Afghanistan.

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Training session

15/05/2012

Training session Erik Fribergh, Registrar of the Court, has welcomed a delegation of Serbian lawyers participating to a training session at the Court. With the support of the Human Rights Trust Fund, training sessions for legal professionals are organised on a regular basis at the Court.

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Thematic factsheets in German and Russian

26/04/2012

Factsheets Thanks to funding from the German Government, the thematic factsheets on the Court’s case law are available in German and Russian.

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Brighton Conference on the future of the Court

23/04/2012

Brighton Conference A high level Conference on the future of the Court was organised by the United Kingdom in Brighton on 18-20 April 2012, during the British Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

 

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President's news

Visit by the Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan

14/05/2012

On 14 May 2012, Fikrat Mammadov, Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan, visited the Court and was received by Sir Nicolas Bratza, President of the Court. Khanlar Hajiyev, the judge elected in respect of Azerbaijan, and Erik Fribergh, Registrar, also attended the meeting.

 

Visit by a delegation of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden

10/05/2012

Visit of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden On 10 May 2012 Sir Nicolas Bratza, President of the Court, received a delegation from the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden led by his President, Mats Melin, for a working meeting. During the visit the delegation met Judges of the Court and members of the Registry.

 

Grand Chamber

Forthcoming judgments

18/05/2012

Hearing The Court will be delivering two Grand Chamber judgments at a public hearing on 22 May 2012.

 

Idalov v. Russia

The case concerned a complaint by a prisoner about his treatment by the police, the conditions of his detention on remand and the criminal proceedings against him

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Scoppola v. Italy (no. 3)

The case concerned the applicant’s complaint that he was banned from voting following his conviction for murder.

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Referral request rejected

09/05/2012

The Court has rejected the referral request to the Grand Chamber made by the applicant in the case of Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the United Kingdom

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Decisions

Inadmissibility decisions

15/05/2012

The Court has declared inadmissible the application in the case of Altunay v. Turkey. The applicant submitted that his loss of ownership without compensation had infringed his right to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions.

 

07/05/2012

The Court has declared inadmissible the applications in the case of Ioviţoni and others v. Romania. The applicants complained that they had had to pay a pollution tax which was discriminatory from the point of view of European Union law, when registering vehicles in Romania purchased in other member States of the European Union.

 

Other judgments

15/05/2012

pdf S.F. and Others v. Sweden

pdf Fernandez Martinez v. Spain

pdf Labsi v. Slovakia

pdf Kaverzin v. Ukraine

pdf 9 other judgments

 

10/05/2012

pdf Albu and Others v. Romania

pdf Frasila and Ciocirlan v. Romania

pdf Putintseva v. Russia

pdf Ozgurluk ve dayanisma Partisi (ÖDP) v. Turkey

pdf 12 others judgments

 

Forthcoming judgments

22/05/2012 : 10 judgments

 

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