ECHR

In the case of Vyacheslavova and Others v. Ukraine the Court held that there had been violations of the right to life/investigation on account of the authorities’ failure to do everything that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent the violence in Odesa on 2 May 2014, to stop that violence after its outbreak, to ensure timely rescue measures for people trapped in the fire, and to institute and conduct an effective investigation into the events. It also held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life in respect of one applicant concerning the delay in handing over her father’s body for burial.

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In the case of F.B. v. Belgium the Court held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private life of a foreign national who complained about the decision to terminate her care as an unaccompanied minor following an age assessment procedure.

The Court concluded, without ruling on the reliability of the bone tests or on the applicant's minority, that the procedure for assessing the applicant's age was not surrounded by sufficient guarantees under Article 8 of the Convention.

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In the case I.C. v. the Republic of Moldova The Court has found multiple violations of the Convention.

The case concerned an intellectually disabled woman and her allegations that she had been forced to work for free and sexually abused after she had been removed from State care to live on a farm.

The Court noted that the legal and administrative framework concerning the removal from State care of persons with intellectual disabilities had flaws, particularly due to the lack of support services and monitoring. In the applicant’s case this had led to the authorities’ failure to take measures to protect her and/or to adequately investigate her allegations, as concerned either the labour exploitation or the rape. It found that the authorities had had a discriminatory attitude towards the applicant because she was a woman with an intellectual disability.

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In the case of X v. Cyprus, the Court held that there had been a lack of effective investigation and a violation of the right to respect for private and family life.

The case concerned the investigation into an alleged gang-rape of a young British woman in Ayia Napa in July 2019.

Identifying a number of failures in the investigation, the Court found, without expressing an opinion as to the suspects’ guilt, that the investigative and prosecutorial authorities’ response had fallen short of the State’s duty to effectively investigate the applicant’s allegations. The credibility of her allegations appeared to have been assessed through prejudicial gender stereotypes and victim-blaming attitudes.

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In the case of Fraisse and Others v. France the Court held that there had been a violation of the right to life in its substantive aspect, and no violation of the same right in its procedural aspect.

The case concerned Rémi Fraisse, a twenty-one-year-old student, who died as a result of the explosion of a blast-effect dispersal weapon, namely an OF-F1 concussion grenade launched by Staff Sergeant J. in the context of a law-enforcement operation at the Sivens construction site (in the municipality of Lisle-sur-Tarn), during violent clashes between protesters opposed to the construction of a dam and mobile gendarmes forces.

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