ECHR rules cases brought by Ukraine, Netherlands against Russia are admissible

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Wednesday that cases brought by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia were admissible.

Kenya Tribes Suing UK over Colonial Crimes - Tasnim News Agency

Two Kenyan tribes are taking the UK to the European Court of Human Rights over alleged abuses in the final decades of British colonial rule.

ECHR requested Russia to prevent execution of Moroccan who fought for Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued an urgent order Thursday to the Russian government to prevent the death penalty from being carried out against a foreigner who was fighting for Ukraine.  

UK government's 1st flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda grounded

The first plane set to take off late Tuesday from the UK carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda in a controversial scheme will not take place, according to local reports.

ECHR halts examination of all applications submitted against Russia due to Moscow's withdrawal from CoE

(Interfax) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has moved to suspend the consideration of all applications submitted against the Russian Federation, the court's press service said in a release on Wednesday.

ECHR Says Registered Russias Complaint Against Ukraine - UrduPoint

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has registered Russia's first interstate complaint against Ukraine, the court's communique says.

European court upholds Belgian ban on full-face veils

The legality of a Belgian ban on full-face Islamic veils was upheld on Tuesday by the European Court of Human Rights.

Ousted president sues Ukraine in European court

Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine's ousted president, has lodged a lawsuit against the Ukrainian government in the European Court of Human Rights for "repeatedly" breaching his human rights.

European Court of Human Rights strikes former Ukrainian PM's case

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has voted on Thursday to strike from its caseload the application brought by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her home nation.

1,000 east Ukraine residents file applications to Russian investigators for ICC, ECHR

More than 1,000 residents of Ukraine’s embattled eastern regions have filed applications to Russian investigators for the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Saturday.

Markin told Itar-Tass that in the framework of a criminal case on the use of banned means and methods of warfare, murders, hindrance to the professional activity of journalists and abductions of people in eastern Ukraine, “over 40 investigators keep working with arrivers from Ukraine.”

Greek Jewish community suing Germany over Nazi ransoms

The Jewish community of Thessaloniki is suing Germany for the return of a ransom paid during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
The papers were filed Friday in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, the community’s president, David Saltiel, told JTA.
The move to the European court comes after a struggle of two decades in Greek courts, including the Supreme Court, which ruled that Germany had immunity under international conventions.

Turkey wants 'stolen' artifacts back from British Museum

Ankara has turned to the European Court of Human Rights in its attempt to reclaim British Museum sculptures that were once part of Turkey's Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
­The dispute is set to become a "test case for the repatriation of art from one nation to another, a potential disaster for the world's museums," the Guardian reported.
The ancient structure was a 45-meter-high tomb created between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus, the current-day resort city of Bodrum in southwestern Turkey. Four horse chariots of marble were perched on top of the superstructure, which was designed by Greek architects.