M.Ș.D. v. Romania, ECtHR, 28935/21, 03/12/2024
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2024

Art 8 (Positive obligations/Private life) - Inadequate criminal legal framework, at the material time, not affording the applicant protection against acts of online harassment committed by her former intimate partner consisting of the non-consensual public dissemination of intimate photographs of her - Failure to conduct prompt and thorough criminal investigation

National Youth Council of Moldova v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 15379/13, 25/06/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Refusal by local authorities to authorise the display of an anti-discrimination illustration on advertising billboards for depicting persons with disabilities and Roma in an undignified and humiliating manner

Oghlishvili v. Georgia, ECtHR, 7621/19, 04/07/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 2 (procedural) - Lack of effective investigation into the alleged suicide of the applicant’s daughter in a domestic violence context - Investigative authority’s non-compliance with requirement to display particular diligence and vigour when investigating a case involving violence against women could be read as sheer unwillingness to establish the truth

Side by Side International Film Festival and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 32678/18, 17172/20, and 30564/21
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2024

Art 10 (Positive obligations/Freedom of expression) - Authorities’ years-long failure to secure safe and uninterrupted conduct of annual international LGBT film festival organised by the applicant company - Failure to take comprehensive action and to implement dissuasive measures concerning repeated telephone bomb threats and other false security alarms on film screening days

W.W. v. Poland, ECtHR, 31842/20, 11/07/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 8 (Private life) - Refusal to allow transgender person to continue hormone therapy in prison - Applicant particularly vulnerable as an imprisoned transgender person undergoing a gender reassignment procedure, thus requiring enhanced protection from the authorities

Dissenting / Concurring: Krzysztof Wojtyczek

X v. Greece, ECtHR, 38588/21, 12/02/2024
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2024

Article 3 and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Failure of investigative and judicial authorities to adequately respond to rape allegations and submit the case to the careful scrutiny required - Adequate legal and regulatory domestic framework not applied in practice as investigation ineffective

Y.T. v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 41701/16, 04/07/2024
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2024

The revision of the judgement, which was originally decided in 2020 - The applicant had failed to inform the ECtHR at the time of his success in obtaining legal gender recognition from another Bulgarian court and, therefore, retroactively found the case to be inadmissible

Dissenting / Concurring: Kateřina Šimáčková

Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 226/18, 236/18, 2027/18, and 22327/22, 03/12/2024
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2024

Art 14 (+ Art 8) Discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation/Private life - Domestic authorities’ failure to comply with positive obligation to respond adequately to homophobic motivated physical threats and verbal assault by a politician against three of the applicants at a rally