Human Rights in the World
UKRAINE: Suspicion of fabrication of a criminal case against a scholar Oleg Maltsev, an internationally recognized Ukrainian scholar in bad health, is in pre-trial detention in a prison denounced as unsanitary by the European Court of Human Rights in 2021. He may be...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
EUROPEAN COURT: Ruling about forced blood transfusion of a Jehovah’s Witness in Spain Shortcomings which led to blood transfusions being administered to a Jehovah’s Witness against her will breached her right to autonomy. The decision was unanimous Registrar of the...
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...
