Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy

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Y.K. v. Croatia, no. 38776/21

17/07/25

Lack of effective domestic remedy with automatic suspensive effect and lack of access to a lawyer to challenge the removal of the applicant, a Turkish national of Kurdish ethnicity, from Croatia.
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Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia [GC], nos. 8019/16 and 3 others

09/07/25

Four separate inter-State applications lodged against the Russian Federation, concerning the events in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which began in the spring of 2014 – including the downing of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 – and events throughout Ukraine from 24 February 2022, i.e., the start of the full-scale military invasion by the Russian Federation.
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Haugen v. Norway, no. 59476/21

15/10/24

Lack of an effective remedy for failure to protect the life of the applicant’s son who suffered from psychiatric disorders and committed suicide in pre-trial detention in an ordinary prison unit.
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