Nikolo with his grandson. Photo: Dato Parulava/OC Media.
A Georgian transgender man has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after local courts rejected his plea to have his gender changed in official documents without undergoing sex reassignment surgery. [Read more…]
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers. Official picture.
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has urged the government of Azerbaijan to abide by its obligations and remove all restrictions on ReAl party leader Ilgar Mammadov and seven others who were determined to be falsely imprisoned. [Read more…]
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers. Official picture.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has expressed ‘concern’ over Georgia’s failure to uphold the rights of queer people, including the lack of protection for this year’s aborted Tbilisi Pride march. [Read more…]
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. (Photo: Wikipedia commons)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Russian government to pay over €1.9 million ($2.1 million) in compensation to the families of people who disappeared in Chechnya and Ingushetia in the early 2000s. [Read more…]
The Grotniki refugee centre (Marcin Stępień /Agencja Gazeta)
Mass executions, murders, abductions, rape, torture, intimidation, extortion, forged criminal proceedings, monstrous corruption — this is what Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya looks like today. The Russian republic is completely disconnected from the Russian legal system — with the consent of the Russian authorities.
Davit Dvali and Jarji Akimidze. (Photo: Rustavi2.info)
Controversy continues around Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2 with allegations of politically-charged changes in editorial policy following a hotly contested change in ownership. [Read more…]
Tsiala Shanava (left) and Iuri Vazagashvili with his son Zurab Vazagashvili’s portrait (right). PIA / Nodar Tskhvirashvili. RFE/RL
Georgia violated the right to life in the murder of two young men by police and also failed to properly investigate the crime, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled. [Read more…]
Temirlan Machalikashvili (facebook)
The family of Temirlan Machalikashvili, a 19-year-old ethnic Kist from Georgia’s Pankisi Valley killed in a special operation, is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights. The teenager was fatally shot while in bed in December 2017 during a counterterror sweep in Pankisi. [Read more…]
A protest on 19 January in Baku calling for freedom for ‘political prisoners’. (Fargana Novruzova)
Despite the European Court of Human Rights awarding compensation to dozens of activists and opposition figures in Azerbaijan, many say the government is not paying up. [Read more…]
Georgian citizens descending from a cargo plane after being expelled from Russia in 2006 (GPB)
The Russian Federation must pay Georgia €10 million ($11.5 million) in compensation for the damages suffered by more than 1,500 Georgian nationals who were arrested, detained, and collectively expelled from Russia in 2006, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled. [Read more…]
