Chamber judgment concerning Albania
04/08/2020
In the case of Tërshana v. Albania the Court has found a violation of the right to life in connection with the procedural aspect of the case, which concerned an acid attack on the applicant in a Tirana street in 2009.
The Court ruled that the State could not be held responsible for the attack because it had not been aware of any threat to the applicant or of the violent conduct of her former husband, whom she suspected of having carried out the attack.
However, the Court noted that the investigation into the attack, which had been a typical act of gender-based violence and should therefore have prompted the authorities to react with special diligence, had failed to identify the substance thrown at the applicant; nor had she been kept informed of the progress of the investigation, despite her repeated enquiries.
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ECHR Twitter account
05/08/2020The Twitter account ECHR_CEDH allows you to follow the Court's activities in French and English, the two official languages of the Council of Europe, and to obtain information on translations of documents into some of the official languages of the member States.
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Country profiles
30/07/2020
Country profiles containing data and information, broken down by individual State, on significant cases considered by the Court or currently pending before it, were updated on 30 July 2020.
There is one country profile for each Council of Europe member State.
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Publications
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Dialogue between Judges 2020
06/08/2020
The proceedings of the Seminar for the Opening of the 2020 judicial year on the theme of The Convention as a Living Instrument at 70 have just been published on line.
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Chamber
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Judgment concerning Andorra
23/07/2020In the case of Chong Coronado v. Andorra the Court held that there had been no violation of the Convention. The applicant, a Panamanian national who was convicted in his absence in 2014 for money laundering as part of an organised criminal group, complained to the Court of being unable to lodge an appeal as he would first have had to appear in person before the court.
The Court found that the obligation for the applicant to appear in person in connection with the application for a retrial did not amount to a disproportionate burden.
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