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Ban on prisoner votes at next election could breach human rights
London :: United Kingdom | about 22 hours ago
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Next year's general election in Britain may not comply with human rights laws because ministers have dragged their feet over giving convicted prisoners the right to vote, the Council of Europe warned today. The committee of ministers, which supervises...
Tags: conviction prisoners, general election, prisoners votes, european court, Council of Europe, enfranchise conviction, John Hirst, court ruling, United Kingdom, London, Elections, Suffrage, Strasbourg, European Court of Human Rights, Politics, Civil rights and liberties, Disfranchisement
European Court orders Bousmantsi detainee's release
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 7 days ago
Credibility Said Kadzoev, 30, claimed to have been tortured for seven months by special security services in Russia. He made his asylum application in Bulgaria in November 2006, yet it seems that he was only interviewed on May 31 2007. The Legal Clinic for Refugees...
Tags: Said Kadzoev, European Court, Valeria Ilareva, Bousmantsi, Bulgaria, Sofia
Religious icons may have to go
Thessaloníki :: Greece | 14 days ago
Credibility However, Kastanidis added that any change to the status quo, which sees icons of the Virgin Mary hung in classrooms, courtrooms and public service offices, would take place �only after agreement has been reached with the Church of Greece.� However, it...
Tags: european court, Haris Kastanidis, Church of Greece, religious icons, Greece, Thessaloníki, Eastern Catholicism, Sacramentals, Eastern Orthodoxy, European Court of Human Rights, CNCD Decision 323/2006, Christian iconography, Religion Belief, Icon, Popular Orthodox Rally
Council of Europe needs to "slim down"
Zurich :: Switzerland | 21 days ago
Credibility Switzerland took over the chair of the Committee of Ministers, the Council's decision-making body, on Wednesday. It has already stated that it wants to push for reform of the European Court of Human Rights. Stephan Breitenmoser, a professor of European...
Tags: human rights, Switzerland, Stephan Breitenmoser, European Council, European Union, legal cooperation, breitenmoser says, european court, Zurich
Italy vows to fight school crucifix ban
Rome :: GA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Italian government is vowing to fight a European court ruling that crucifixes in classrooms violate students' right to freedom of religion. The European Court of Human Rights found unanimously Tuesday that the display of a particular religious symbol...
Tags: european court, European
EU court slaps down Brussels attempts to lower eastern CO2 emissions
Brussels :: Belgium | 2 months ago
Credibility Poland and Estonia have won a court challenge to European Commission attempts to rein in their carbon emissions, a move that could threaten the European Union's flagship mechanism for combatting climate change. The European Court of First Instance on...
Tags: European Commission, European Union, carbon emissions, Estonia, Poland, european court, Belgium, Brussels
Amnesty International: Greece: Amnesty International reiterates its serious concerns about detention conditions for asylum seekers following ruling of the European Court of Human Rights
Athens :: Greece | 5 months ago
Credibility Amnesty International reiterates its serious concerns about detention conditions for asylum seekers following ruling of the European Court of Human Rights Amnesty International reiterates it serious concerns about the detention conditions for asylum seekers...
Tags: asylum seekers, human rights, international reiterates, detention conditions, european court
Woman still threatened by husband despite European court's landmark ruling
İstanbul :: Turkey | 6 months ago
Credibility Applying to the European court in 2002, Turkish national Nahide Opuz alleged that Turkish authorities had failed to protect the life of her mother, killed by Opuz's husband. The European court issued a historic ruling on Tuesday, fining Turkey 36,500...
Tags: Nahide Opuz, european court
Ministers to trim DNA database
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Ministers are to heed a court ruling that profiles of innocent people on a national DNA database must be removed. The Home Office says the number of people on the database could be cut by up to 850,000 to bring it into line with the Court of Human Rights.
Tags: dna database, dna profiles, Britain, European Court, dna records, Jacqui Smith
Budvar wins latest European battle over Budweiser name
Brussels :: Belgium | 8 months ago
Credibility It is a victory for the Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar, which said it had registered the name in France, Austria and the former Czechoslovakia in 1958. A European court backed Budvar in December last year after US-based Anheuser applied for an EU trademark.
Tags: Budweiser, european court
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