Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: A court fined a disabled Jehovah’s Witness suffering from cancer to 4500 USD By Willy Fautré The European Times (12.08.2024) – On August 8, 2014, Judge Sergey Lytkin of the Kurgan City Court convicted Anatoliy Isakov, 59, for so-called extremism...
Human Rights in the World
ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta and Others not implemented by Greece for over 16 years ABTTF (13.06.2024) – The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, at its meeting held in Strasbourg on 11-13 June 2024 examined the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UN: Geneva and Strasbourg on the same line about purchase of sexual acts Independent expert welcomes European Court decision validating conventionality of French law of 13 April 2016 criminalising purchase of sexual acts UN (26.07.2024) – The Special Rapporteur on...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, what is the matter? Enhanced state recognition was refused to the religious organizations based on arguments that have already been rejected by the courts, including the European Court of Human Rights. Version in Lithuanian by...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
GEORGIA/ECHR: Georgian Muslim Relations and Others v. Georgia A bleeding pig’s head and other expressions of religious hatred with no police intervention by dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf1 Strasbourg Observers (23.04.2024) – On 30 November, the Fifth Division of the...
