Chamber judgment concerning Azerbaijan
10/01/2018
In the case of Khadija Ismayilova v. Azerbaijan, the Court has found a violation of the right to respect for private life and the right to freedom of expression.
The applicant, who was working at the time for Radio Azadliq (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), is an investigative journalist who is highly critical of the Government. She complained of interference in her intimate and private life, submitting that the harassment which she had suffered had been part of a systematic smear campaign being conducted against journalists in Azerbaijan for political reasons.
The Court took note, in particular, of information on cases of persecution of journalists in Azerbaijan and on the overall impression that the persecutors could act with impunity.
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Chamber
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Judgment concerning the Republic of Moldova
15/01/2019In the case of Mătăsaru v. Republic of Moldova, the Court found that the applicant’s right to freedom of expression was breached when he was given a suspended prison sentence for staging a demonstration in front of the prosecutor-general’s office, involving sculptures which likened civil servants to genitalia and were judged obscene.
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Judgment concerning the Russian Federation
15/01/2019In in the case of Kopytok v. Russia the Court held that there had been a violation of the protection of property.
The case concerned the applicant’s complaint about buying a flat which in the eyes of the law could still be used by members of the seller’s family.
The Court found that the applicant had suffered an excessive burden because the right to use the flat enjoyed by the seller’s adult children had not been recorded in any official register that she could consult.
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Decision
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Inadmissibility decision
17/01/2019The Court found manifestly ill-founded the application Mehmedović v. Switzerland and declared it inadmissible.
In this case the applicants complained about a breach of their right to respect for their private life on account of being subjected to surveillance by detectives employed by a private insurance company, which wanted to check that the first applicant’s compensation claim, following a road traffic accident, was justified.
The Court found that the insurance investigations, carried out in public places and being limited to observations about the first applicant’s mobility, sought only to preserve the insurance company’s pecuniary rights. As to any information concerning his wife, which had been obtained incidentally without being relevant to the investigation, it could not be characterised as the systematic or permanent gathering of data.
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Hearings
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Forthcoming hearing
20/12/2018
On 22 January 2019 the Court will be holding a hearing in the case of A.M. v. France.
The case concerns the applicant’s deportation to Algeria. The applicant is an Algerian national convicted in France of a terrorism offence.
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Elections
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Composition of the Court
08/01/2019
The elected Judges in respect of Albania and Norway - Darian Pavli and Arnfinn Bårdsen respectively - were sworn in by the President on Monday 7 January 2019.
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Delivered Judgments & Decisions
17/01/2019
15/01/2019
Forthcoming Judgments & Decisions
22-24/01/2019