All news on the topic: European Court of Human Rights

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Ukraine escalates anti-corruption crackdown as war and EU accession pressure mount
Ukraine has continued to pursue high-level corruption cases even as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds through its fifth year. The aggressive push reflects not only domestic pressure, but Kyiv’s need to prove to the EU, NATO, and Western donors that wartime aid and future reconstruction funds can be protected.
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UK government wins appeal to keep Palestine Action ban in force
The UK government has won its appeal to maintain the ban on Palestine Action. In response, the group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, vowed to fight the proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, calling the ban an extreme attack on free speech and protest.
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EHRC faces backlash over trans rights code built on “indefensible” claims
UK and European law has started from the premise that trans people exist since at least 1999.
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Greece faces renewed scrutiny as Frontex files link border abuses to state authorities in Evros pushback cases
Frontex reports and a recent BBC investigation have renewed scrutiny of Greece’s Evros border operations, documenting allegations of violent pushbacks in which masked men were allegedly used alongside Greek officers.
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Sanctioned oligarch Abramovich claims rights breach as £5.3bn frozen in Jersey probe
Roman Abramovich has gone to the European court of human rights (ECHR), claiming that a criminal investigation into his financial affairs by the Jersey authorities has breached his human rights, according to reports.
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Crackdown crosses borders as Azerbaijani journalist seized and expelled from Georgia despite court protection
The deportation of a dissident editor, which rights groups condemned as a hallmark of authoritarian cooperation, occurred just a day before Azerbaijan’s president arrived in Tbilisi for a state visit.
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Rape survivor paralysed after suicide attempt set to die by euthanasia amid family battle
A 25-year-old woman left paraplegic from a failed suicide attempt after she was gang raped is scheduled to end her life by euthanasia today.
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‘Freedom to Mzia’: Georgian journalist jailed as EU protests rage on
Foreign embassies and media advocates condemned the sentencing of Mzia Amaghlobeli after a Georgian court jailed the veteran journalist.
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Rishi Sunak still can't say if Rwanda flights will take off before next election
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak echoed Theresa May's Brexit warnings to urge the House of Lords 'not to frustrate the will of the people' by opposing the Safety of Rwanda Bill
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Lee Anderson says Rishi Sunak won't stop the boats as he leads Baked Bean Plot
Loudmouth Tory Lee Anderson and his pal Brendan Clarke-Smith quit as the party's Deputy Chairmen to join a Commons rebellion on the PM's Rwanda migrant deportation plan
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Tony Blair plotted to send asylum seekers to Africa 20 years before Rwanda plan
A previously-secret report written while Tony Blair was Prime Minister suggested deporting refugees to Turkey, Kenya and South Africa in the early 2000s
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'Rotten to the core Rwanda Bill is performative cruelty of dying Government'
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas says Rishi Sunak's desperate bid to push through the Rwanda plan in spite of a Supreme Court ruling that it is illegal represents a 'grim slide into authoritarianism'
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Tory James Cleverly's own flight to Rwanda delayed after deportations hold up
Home Secretary James Cleverly's Government flight to Rwanda was delayed last night, which came after months of Tory moans about deportation flights to Rwanda being delayed by judges
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Rishi Sunak won't rule out spending millions more on Rwanda amid secrecy row
Rishi Sunak declined to say what the maximum cost he'd be prepared to spend on the Rwanda deportation scheme amid questions over how much taxpayers have coughed up so far
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'Suella Braverman's mad plan proves any fool can be a dictator'
The former Home Secretary wants to end the rule of law, says Fleet Street Fox. Fascism has become an equal opportunities infection
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Rishi Sunak announces emergency laws to send migrants to Rwanda
The Prime Minister used a Downing Street press conference to announce plans for emergency legislation in response to the Supreme Court's ruling that the Rwanda plan is unlawful
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Suella Braverman breaks silence on Rwanda migrant shambles with dig at Sunak
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman launched a fresh broadside at Rishi Sunak after the Supreme Court ruled the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful
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Tories at war as Suella Braverman letter sparks 'grid of s***' warning for PM
Rishi Sunak is grappling to keep control of his deeply divided party after Suella Braverman's extraordinary attack accusing him of dishonesty and incompetence, with Jacob Rees-Mogg among those backing her
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Rishi Sunak faces Rwanda court D-Day as Suella Braverman loyalists attack him
On Wednesday the Supreme Court will deliver a final judgement on whether the Rwanda deportation scheme is legal amid calls from the Tory right for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
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Indi Gregory's parents 'feel powerless' as they battle to save baby girl
Court of Appeal judges have dismissed the baby's parents bid to allow the critically ill tot to travel to Italy for treatment for incurable mitochondrial disease
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Inside crumbling palace owned by King Charles' family as he plans £12m makeover
The Tatoi palace on Mount Parnitha, near Athens, was the Greek royal family's home before the abolition of monarchy in 1973. An expensive renovation of the home could see it restored to its former glory and turned into a museum
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'We must loudly support Human Rights Convention - or face disaster like Brexit'
Supporters of the European Convention on Human Rights must seize the moment and confront right-wing propaganda demanding the UK leaves it now - or risk a Brexit-style disaster, argues Kevin Maguire
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Small boats, weather, hotels and Rwanda - the Channel migrant 'crisis' explained
The Downing Street media grid has designated this "small boats week", with a series of crackdowns announced and re-announced as the first migrants board the Bibby Stockholm barge
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Dame Kelly Holmes joins LGBT+ veterans in welcoming Rishi Sunak apology
The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace both made apologies in the House of Commons for the shameful treatment of troops under the military gay ban
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Caster Semenya speaks out after winning human rights court appeal
Caster Semenya has spoken out after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in her favour over rules regarding testosterone levels in female athletes
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