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Election of Judges
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, re-elected the Luxemburg judge at the Court, Dean Spielmann, for a new term. He was elected out of a list of three candidates by 86 out of 126 votes cast. His new term…
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The Perils of an Interview
Being interviewed in a newspaper can have serious consequences. Such was the experience of Nadji Chalabi in whose case the Court recently issued its judgment. Chalabi was a former member of the Board of Directors of the Grand Mosque of the French…
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10,000th Court Judgment
This month the European Court of Human Rights reached a remarkable milestone. On 18 September it delivered its 10,000th judgment, both a testimony to the Court’s very high efficiency as well as a sad reminder of the enormous case load – and…
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Court’s Summer Break
After issuing its last judgments yesterday, the Court has gone on its summer break. This blog will do the same and will return at the end of September (a bit later than the Court itself). For some summer reading, please consult (and…
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Recognised at Long Last
In one of its last judgments before the summer break, the Court found violations on several counts in a case lodged by the Austrian Religionsgemeinschaft der Zeugen Jehovas (Austrian Jehovah’s Witnesses). The religious community applied for legal recognition as a religious society…
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Turkish AK Party Fined But Not Dissolved
Yesterday, the Constitutional Court of Turkey ruled that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party will not be banned. It was a Phyrric victory for the party, however. A majority of the judges voted to close down the party, but the majority…
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Losing Flux – Freedom of Expression Case
Today the Moldovan newspaper Flux for the first time lost a case before the European Court of Human Rights. The newspaper is famous among Strasbourg watchers. It instituted and won six earlier cases before the Court and each time a violation of…
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Request for Interim Measure on Turkish AK Party – Dismissed
Last Friday, 25 July, the Court received an application by Ali Sezer relating to the possible dissolution of the ruling party in Turkey, the AK Party (Justice and Development Party). The applicant also asked for an interim measure “to prevent the Turkish…
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Kononov judgment available
The Kononov judgment I mentioned in last Friday’s post is now available on the Court’s website (in English and in French). To find it, click here.
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World War II Crimes Revisited
It is relatively rare, but sometimes echoes of crimes committed during World War II reach the Strasbourg Court. In such instances the Court is called upon to look into atrocities which themselves gave rise to the drafting of the Convention and the…
