| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.07.2026 | Стрельба по презумпции | Стрельба по презумпции Французским полицейским меняют правила применения оружия
Национальная ассамблея Франции приняла в первом чтении один из самых спорных законопроектов последних лет. Депутаты одобрили введение презумпции законности прим... |
| 22.06.2026 | Thousands to rally in Strasbourg to demand action over Turkey’s failure to enforce ECtHR rulings | Strasbourg Justice Gathering: Time for Action
Thousands of people from across Europe will gather in Strasbourg on June 24 to demand action over Turkey’s failure to enforce ECtHR judgments.
STRASBOURG, FRANCE, June 22, 2026 /EINPresswire.com... |
| 18.06.2026 | Joint Statement: Afghan and European civil society oppose EU engagement with the Taliban on deportations | We, the undersigned civil society organisations, including Afghan diaspora organisations across Europe, are profoundly concerned, outraged, and deeply disappointed by reports that the European Union (EU) intends to host representatives of t... |
| 22.04.2026 | Roman Abramovich heads to European Court of Human Rights | Roman Abramovich has headed to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge a criminal investigation into the Russian oligarch being carried out by authorities in Jersey.
The former Chelsea FC owner has been under investigation for four ... |
| 27.03.2026 | Olympics Define Women's Sport: 'Biological Females' Rule | The International Olympic Committee announced a new rule: only "biological females" can compete in women's Olympic events, starting with the Los Angeles 2028 Games. This strict policy bans transgender women and athletes with certa... |
| 26.03.2026 | Transgender women athletes banned from female Olympic events by new IOC policy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer
GENEVA (AP) — Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women’s events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which a... |
| 15.01.2026 | Тимошенко вышла «на тропу войны»: НАБУ ответит за её потревоженные «карманные расходы» | По её словам, она не впервые сталкивается с политическим преследованием. Но это не изменит её позицию: «Мы как боролись, так и будем бороться против масштабной коррупции, охватившей все ветви власти в Украине» — заявила она. «Украина превра... |
| 08.01.2026 | It’s time for Starmer to choose: is he a lawyer or a leader? | The international, rules-and-rights-based order is crumbling in the face of Trump’s brute force. This leaves career human rights lawyer Keir Starmer in an interesting position…
A Venezuelan friend once showed me a small purse made out of fo... |
| 10.07.2025 | Olympic champ Semenya did not get a fair hearing in sex eligibility case, human rights court rules | South Africa’s Caster Semenya leaves in the European Court of Human Rights Thursday, July 10, 2025 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Antonin Utz)
South Africa’s Caster Semenya speaks to lawyer Gregory Nott, right, in the European Cou... |
| 04.06.2025 | The Human Cost of Political Repression in Ukraine | In the heart of Ukraine, a silent storm brews. Political repression is a dark cloud hanging over the nation, casting shadows on the lives of thousands. The stories of individuals like Elena Berezhnaya and the Kononovich brothers illuminate ... |
| 31.05.2025 | Предложена новая формула обмена между Киевом и Москвой | Пришла тревожная новость об украинской правозащитнице Елене Бережной, приговоренной в декабре прошлого года к 14 годам тюрьмы с конфискацией имущества по обвинению в госизмене. Как сообщил бывший премьер-министр Украины Николай Азаров, пожи... |
| 25.05.2025 | Council of Europe chief criticises push to ease expulsion of foreign criminals | BRUSSELS: The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, criticised an initiative by nine European countries calling on member states to make it easier to expel foreign criminals.
European governments have... |
| 10.04.2025 | Philip Green verdict is a big win for the under scrutiny ECHR | Sir Philip Green tried to sue the UK, but Strasbourg said ‘no’ — in a move that not only “reaffirms” Parliamentary privilege but shines a telling light on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Parliamentary privilege, a right that has ... |
| 09.04.2025 | The Steel Dilemma: A Crucial Crossroad for Britain’s Industry | The fate of British Steel hangs in the balance. The Scunthorpe plant, the last bastion of steelmaking in the UK, faces an uncertain future. Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, has stated that “all options are on the table” regarding its p... |
| 08.04.2025 | Philip Green loses legal challenge over parliamentary privilege for court injunctions | A legal challenge lodged by Sir Philip Green to curb parliamentary privilege to name individuals shielded by court injunctions has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
Eight ECHR justices ruled on Tuesday that Article ... |
| 14.03.2025 | In the dumps: Man with £769m of bitcoin in landfill has appeal rejected | James Howells, the man who claims to have lost £769m worth of bitcoin in a Welsh landfill, has had his appeal thrown out by the second-highest court in the land – and has now resolved to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
... |
| 06.03.2025 | Romania detains 6 on suspicion of plotting a coup in collusion with Russia | The group had “a military-type structure” that aimed to negotiate withdrawal from NATO, which Romania joined in 2004, as well as the adoption of a new Constitution, country name, flag and anthem, police said.
“The members of the criminal gr... |
| 23.01.2025 | Italy’s top court upholds Amanda Knox’s conviction for falsely accusing man of murder | The slander conviction against Knox had survived multiple appeals, and Knox was reconvicted on the charge in June after a European court ruling that Italy had violated her human rights cleared the way for a new trial.
Speaking recently on h... |
| 19.12.2024 | Sarkozy must wear electronic tag after losing graft case appeal | PARIS: France's highest appeals court ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy to wear an electronic tag for a year Wednesday (Dec 18) - a first for a former head of state - after confirming his convictions for corruption and influence pedd... |
| 02.12.2024 | World Court Opens Landmark Climate Change Case As Vulnerable Nations Rue COP29 Finance Deal | 5 Mins Read The UN’s top court will today begin historic hearings on countries’ legal obligations to combat climate change and the consequences of their inaction.
A week after countries at COP29 agreed to a climate finance deal that left vu... |
| 13.08.2024 | The Heart of the Matter: Therapy Dogs and Olympic Drama | In the world of sports, emotions run high. Athletes push their limits, striving for greatness. But amidst the fierce competition, there lies a softer side—one that brings joy and comfort. Enter Beacon, the therapy dog, who has become a beac... |
| 12.08.2024 | Olympics | Jordan Chiles has been stripped of a gymnastics bronze medal, but the USOPC says it will appeal | The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) said Saturday night it would respect the court’s decision and elevate Ana Barbosu of Romania to third. The International Olympic Committee confirmed the ruling Sunday, announcing that it was rea... |
| 07.08.2024 | Olympics | Sex eligibility rules for female athletes are complex and legally difficult. Here’s how they work | What is the criteria for female participation?
Testosterone levels — not XY chromosomes, which is the pattern typically seen in men — are the key criterion of eligibility in Olympic events where the sport’s governing body has framed and app... |
| 31.07.2024 | Explainer-DSD rules in focus in women's boxing | Previous
FILE PHOTO: Apr 16, 2024; Pueblo, Colorado, USA; Jucielen Romeu (BRA) in red and Yu-Ting Lin (TPE) in blue compete in the elite female 57kg category at Pueblo Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports/... |
| 19.07.2024 | ЕСПЧ посчитал нарушенными права новосибирского депутата-иноагента | - |
| 08.07.2024 | PM Starmer wraps up UK tour after visit to Northern Ireland | BELFAST: New Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday (Jul 8) wrapped up a whistlestop tour of the UK, promising Northern Ireland's leaders "a different way of doing politics" following years of Brexit turmoil.
Starmer, whose centre-... |
| 10.06.2024 | Flight MH17: European Court of Human Rights to hear the Netherlands’ inter-State application against the Russian Federation | NETHERLANDS, June 10 - News item | 10-06-2024 | 09:30
On 12 June 2024 the European Court of Human Rights will consider the Netherlands’ inter-State application against the Russian Federation regarding the downing of flight MH17. The hearing... |
| 04.06.2024 | U.S. soldier-turned-foreign fighter faces charges in Florida double murder after extradition from Ukraine | A former U.S. soldier has been extradited from Ukraine and is facing charges related to a double murder in Florida and other alleged crimes, officials said Monday. Craig Austin Lang, 34, allegedly committed the double murder as well as arme... |
| 21.05.2024 | South Korea: Climate Inaction Hearing Could Set Precedent in Case Brought by Children – and An Unborn Baby | 5 Mins Read South Korea’s constitutional court today held its final hearing on four landmark cases brought by the public against the government’s inaction on climate change. Experts say this could set a precedent.
The South Korean governmen... |
| 15.05.2024 | Semenya determined to fight on against DSD regulations | Double Olympic 800-metre champion Caster Semenya appeared at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday to continue her challenge against World Athletics regulations that female athletes with differences in sexual development (D... |
| 10.04.2024 | European court ruling on climate may affect pending cases, including in U.S. | A groundbreaking climate ruling by the European Court of Human Rights could influence cases on the other side of the Atlantic, and in other tribunals.
Why it matters: Tuesday's ruling may influence near-term European policy and three key in... |
| 27.02.2024 | Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee Statement on the ECtHR Court Ruling on Encryption in Podchasov v. Russia | Logo of the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC). Black text on a white background, with multi-colored squares (dark orange, dark yellow, dark blue, and light blue / green) forming a + symbol.
This is a statement of the members of the Steering... |
| 23.01.2023 | Flight MH17: European Court to hand down decision on admissibility of the Netherlands’ inter-State application against Russia | NETHERLANDS, January 23 - News item | 23-01-2023 | 11:56
On 25 January 2023 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will issue a decision on whether it will consider the merits of the Netherlands’ inter-State application against Russia r... |
| 17.08.2022 | The Unlawful U.S. Killing of Ayman al-Zawahri | The recent killing of the most senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan is another triumph of American exceptionalism over international law. U.S. President Joe Biden boasted that “justice” has been “delivered,” but he offered no explicit lega... |
| 26.05.2022 | The Legal Challenges Presented by Seizing Frozen Russian Assets | As Russia’s unlawful war of aggression continues to inflict untold devastation on Ukraine and its people, policymakers have begun to search for ways to support Ukraine’s beleaguered economy and fund its eventual reconstruction. Their attent... |
| 25.10.2021 | Belarus’s Lawfare Against Latvia, Lithuania and Poland | In recent months, Belarus has been sending foreign migrants to its western borders with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. While this might appear to be a strategy to combat a rise in immigration, it’s actually Belarus’s latest effort in waging ... |
| 11.10.2021 | Минусы эмиграции: валить или не валить | Там у них пока что лучше бытово,
Так чтоб я не отчебучил не того —
Он мне дал прочесть брошюру как наказ,
Чтоб не вздумал жить там сдуру, как у нас.
(с) В. Высоцкий (Инструкция перед поездкой за рубеж)
Хорошо там, где нас нет, и у чужого ба... |
| 02.09.2021 | ‘The Politics of Truth’: The U.K. Overseas Operations Act and Legislation on Northern Ireland Legacy | On July 2, the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service (PPS) notified the families of James Wray and William McKinney that it had discontinued proceedings against a former U.K. soldier, referred to as Soldier F. Since March 14, 2019, So... |
| 28.06.2021 | Databeskyttelse: Kommissionen vedtager tilstrækkelighedsafgørelser for Det Forenede Kongerige | The Commission has today adopted two adequacy decisions for the United Kingdom - one under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. Personal data can now flow freely from the European Un... |
| 21.06.2021 | Weekly European Agenda | 21/06/2021 | If you would like to receive a summary of each week's institutional agenda in your inbox every Monday, sign up here.
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EMI: Creating a Union of Freedom and Equal Rights for All
EP: Delegation for... |
| 10.06.2021 | Supreme Court to Hear State Secrets Case Involving Guantanamo Detainee | On April 27, the Supreme Court agreed to take up United States v. Abu Zubaydah, which considers whether a Guantanamo Bay detainee can obtain information about his treatment while a detainee in CIA custody. The detainee is Zayn al-Abidin Muh... |
| 13.05.2021 | Is the Facebook Oversight Board an International Human Rights Tribunal? | The Facebook Oversight Board has now ruled on former President Trump’s suspension from the social media platform. On May 5, the board upheld Trump’s ban but said that Facebook’s initial suspension was an “indeterminate and standardless pena... |
| 12.10.2020 | Schrems II and Individual Redress—Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way | The issue of individual redress has bedeviled negotiations between the European Union and the United States for more than two decades. Three adequacy deals—the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement, Schrems I and Schrems II—have now unravel... |
| 02.04.2020 | U.K. Government Is Using Coronavirus As Excuse To Ramp Up Surveillance | The U.K. government is seeking to expand the location and customer data is has access to during the ... [+] coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)PA Images via Getty Images |
| 31.03.2020 | Britain’s Coronavirus Response | Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has a new message: “Stay at home!”
Initially, Johnson took a fairly unorthodox approach to the coronavirus outbreak, calling on fellow Britons to “take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow... |
| 07.02.2020 | Facial Recognition Has Its Eye on the U.K. | In the United Kingdom, there is an “eye in the sky” surveilling people on the street—and soon it may know their names. Human rights organizations such as Big Brother Watch and Liberty, as well as British parliamentarians, are challenging wh... |
| 19.12.2019 | Austria's Top Court Says Police May Not Install Surveillance Malware On Computers And Phones, Nor Collect Vehicle And Driver Information Covertly | One of the features of surveillance in Germany is the routine use of malware to spy on its citizens. The big advantage for the authorities is that this allows them to circumvent end-to-end encryption. By placing spy software on the user’s e... |
| 19.12.2019 | Austria's Top Court Says Police May Not Install Surveillance Malware On Computers And Phones, Nor Collect Vehicle And Driver Information Covertly | One of the features of surveillance in Germany is the routine use of malware to spy on its citizens. The big advantage for the authorities is that this allows them to circumvent end-to-end encryption. By placing spy software on the user's e... |
| 24.05.2019 | The Wikimedia Foundation Asks The European Court Of Human Rights To Rule Against Turkey's Two-Year Block Of All Wikipedia Versions | As numerous Techdirt stories attest, the Turkish authorities — and the country’s notoriously thin-skinned President, Recep Erdogan — are unwilling to accept even the slightest criticism of their actions, from any quarter. That has led to hu... |
| 12.10.2018 | Summary: Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom | On Sept. 13, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the United Kingdom’s bulk data-collection programs violate human-rights law by failing to incorporate adequate privacy safeguards and oversight—but that mass surveillance and... |
| 13.09.2018 | UK’s mass surveillance regime violated human rights law, finds ECHR | In another blow to the UK government’s record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that state surveillance practices violated human rights law.
Arguments against the UK intellig... |
| 21.06.2018 | In A Surprising Decision, European Court Of Human Rights Says Sweden's Mass Surveillance Is Fine | In the wake of Snowden’s revelations of the scale of mass surveillance around the world, various cases have been brought before the courts in an attempt to stop or at least limit this activity. One involved Sweden’s use of bulk interception... |
| 31.05.2018 | Oral Argument in Georgia v. Russia (II): The Fake News Era Reaches Strasbourg | On May 23, two distinguished Queen’s Counsel squared off before a Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in a rare inter-state case on the court’s docket, Georgia v. Russia (II). Over the course of a more than three hours, Ben ... |
| 25.05.2018 | 5 digital privacy rights Europeans now have that Americans don't | A wide-ranging digital privacy law known as GDPR goes into effect in the European Union on Friday. In the works since 2012, the new law fundamentally reshapes how people think about their digital data and reasserts consumers' rights to info... |
| 07.05.2018 | 'One Nation Under CCTV': The U.K. Tackles Facial Recognition Technology | “Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Enhance Real-Time Police Surveillance” reads a recent Wall Street Journal headline. Technology companies are working with U.S. police departments to develop facial recognition technology for body cameras—... |
| 01.03.2018 | Summary: The EU General Data Protection Regulation | After four years of negotiation, the European Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on April 14, 2016. Enforcement is scheduled to begin May 25. This post provides a high-level summary of what the GDPR requires, ... |
| 19.10.2017 | Third-Party Party-Crashing? The Fate of the Third-Party Doctrine | This fall may prove a landmark in the ongoing debate between security and privacy. Poised to take action are both the U.S. Supreme Court, in Carpenter v. United States, and the U.S. Congress, with the impending sunset of Section 702 of the ... |
| 07.09.2017 | European Court Reverses Ruling on Firing over Private Messages | The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reversed a ruling on the firing of an employee for sending private messages at work. Romanian national Bogdan Bărbulescu was sacked from his position as a sales engineer in Bucharest in 2007 for... |
| 13.10.2016 | Online Incitement, Foreign Terrorist Fighters, and the Dutch Context Investigation | On December 10, 2015, the District Court of The Hague convicted eight men and one woman for a range of terrorist offenses in the biggest terrorism trial the Netherlands has ever seen. This trial was part of a comprehensive criminal investig... |
| 27.06.2016 | A Global Downturn in Human Rights: Implications for International Law | There is a downturn in civil and political rights in many of the world’s largest and most geopolitically significant countries, especially Russia, China, and Turkey, but also other countries such as Venezuela. These developments have broad ... |
| 17.05.2016 | Privacy shield rejection highlights need for proactive corporate privacy approach | Joanna Belbey Contributor
Joanna Belbey is the social media and compliance specialist at Actiance.
To anyone familiar with doing business in Europe, it really is no surprise that representatives from supervisory authorities of each European... |
| 08.12.2015 | Turkey's YouTube Ban Breached Right To Information, Says European Court Of Human Rights | Last week Techdirt wrote about a curious case involving the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Gollum. In passing, Mike mentioned that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had just made an important ruling involving one of T... |
| 01.10.2015 | Is the Safe Harbor Framework in Trouble? | Last week, the Court of Justice for the European Union’s Advocate General published an opinion that casts doubt on the future of the so-called United States-European Union “safe harbor framework”—a legal arrangement which enables much of th... |
| 05.09.2014 | European Court of Human Rights Takes on Extraditions to the U.S.: Trabelsi v. Belgium | The European Court of Human Rights released its opinion in the case of Trabelsi v. Belgium on yesterday, holding that by extraditing Nizar Trabelsi to the United States, where he possibly faced an irreducible life sentence, Belgium had viol... |
| 12.12.2013 | Legal Challenges To Spying Mount In UK | It’s taken a while for Europeans to recover from the discovery that they are being spied upon by the NSA (with some help from its friends at GCHQ and elsewhere) pretty much everywhere online and all the time, but finally the legal fightback... |
| 14.11.2013 | Does the ICCPR Establish an Extraterritorial Right to Privacy? | Ben and David Cole have been having an exchange (see here and here) about a “universal right to privacy,” including a discussion about what such a right might look like. Stepping back, it is useful to understand how international law curren... |
| 09.04.2007 | European Court of Human Rights: Personal calls and Internet usage from work are (maybe) protected | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| - | ЕСПЧ отклонил жалобу Киркорова на запрет въезда в Литву
«Новые люди» объединились с «Партией роста» | Европейский суд по правам человека (ЕСПЧ) признал неприемлемой жалобу по делу «Киркоров против Литвы». Российский певец и музыкальный продюсер Филипп Киркоров пытался оспорить запрет на въезд в страну, говорится в сообщении ЕСПЧ.
В 2021 г. ... |
| - | A landmark ruling in Europe’s top rights court delivers a watershed moment for climate litigation | The European Court of Human Right’s (ECHR) decision was hailed by campaigners as a groundbreaking moment.
The influence of the decision is expected to be felt far beyond Europe’s borders.
The ECHR ruled on Tuesday that two other similar cli... |
| - | The Georgian village facing Russian ‘creeping occupation’ | Listen to this story:
Khurvaleti, Georgia – When Gia Batonisashvili hears dogs barking, he knows “Russians are patrolling”. The troops patrol with their dog in what used to be his back garden. He lost this garden three years ago when Russia... |