If they rule in favour of three cases claiming their rights have been breached, it would mean that individuals could seek redress with the Strasbourg court and compensation if their governments ...

Victim-Blaming' Behind Cyprus Failure to Pursue UK Woman's Rape Claim, Strasbourg Court Says (Reuters) -Cypriot authorities were guilty of bias and victim-blaming in failing to investigate a ...

Amidst the U-turns, if there is one thing on which Labour has remained almost rock-solid until now, it is human rights and ...

The former New Labour cabinet minister has criticised the foreign court's quality of judges and lack of democratic ...

“The Strasbourg Court is a wholly irresponsible body…in the sense that it is not responsible to anyone” Listen to Rosalind English in conversation with Lord Sumption about the reasons why this country ...

The European Court of Human Rights is an international court which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. Sometimes known as the Strasbourg Court, it hears applications alleging ...

The Council has condemned Rwanda’s support for the rebels. The European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg has held Cyprus to have been in violation of Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention ...

Cyprus's Supreme Court overturned the woman's conviction in January 2022, upholding her assertion that she had retracted her allegation under pressure. Despite that ruling, the attorney-general ...

(Reuters) -Cypriot authorities were guilty of bias and victim-blaming in failing to investigate a British teenager's gang-rape allegation against Israeli tourists in 2019, the European Court of ...

The woman, then 18 and identified as "X", reported being raped by Israeli youths in July 2019 in the resort of Ayia Napa.