Applicants’ arrest at demonstrations against the outcome of parliamentary elections and Covid-19 pandemic curfew, and subsequent conviction for administrative offence of disobeying lawful police orders.
Judgment

Domestic authorities’ refusal to authorise assemblies sought by an association and a private person for security and safety concerns in the context of a tense situation in Latvia in 2014.
Judgment

The domestic courts’ refusal to register the “Cultural Association of Turkish Women of the Prefecture of Xanthi”, explained with the need to distinguish between the Muslim minority with Greek citizenship, as recognised by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, and a Turkish minority not acknowledged by the courts.
Judgment

Collection and storage of the applicants’ political data shared with electoral authorities and refusal to register them as candidates in municipal elections based on police information alleging their “involvement” with organisations designated as “extremist” by the domestic courts.
Judgment

Applicant’s administrative detention and subsequent conviction in administrative-offence proceedings for attempting to take firewood to a demonstration.
Judgment

Criminal conviction of the applicant for wearing a plastic visor at a demonstration in breach of a general prohibition of carrying protective weapons at public outdoor assemblies.
Judgment

Police inspection of the applicants’ belongings leading to the retrieval of several dangerous objects during a demonstration aimed at protesting the use of animals in circus acts, followed by the applicants’ detention for two to three hours at a police station.
Judgment

The police’s disruption of a protest march, where several applicants were armed with batons and explosives to create panic and disorient the police and ensuing criminal convictions of the applicants.
Decision

Disciplinary sanctions imposed on public school teachers (civil servants), for having participated in a collective action decreed by their trade union and consisting in a one-hour class (outside of the curriculum) given in their mother tongue and focused on the importance of mother tongue.
Decision

Applicants’ criminal conviction for blocking a motorway as part of a strike.
Judgment

Withholding of the applicant’s wages by her employer (a State-owned company governed by private law) for two days for partial performance of work tasks in the context of a “selective strike” following a collective trade union decision.
Judgment

Disciplinary sanctions imposed on civil servants for participating in a one-day strike called by their union in protest against government practices, which were unrelated to the defence of their own professional interests.
Decision | Legal Summary

Disciplinary sanction imposed on a teacher for participating in a one-day strike called by the union in protest against a curfew in certain towns, which was unrelated to the defence of her own professional interests.
Decision

Ban on a demonstration organised by the applicant trade union for 1 May 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the participants’ readiness to demonstrate in a convoy of cars and wearing masks and gloves.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Termination of a five-day hunger strike in a public space and ensuing administrative conviction for participation in an unauthorised “public event”.
Judgment

Designation of applicant NGOs as “undesirable” not “prescribed by law”, being both unforeseeable and arbitrary.
Judgment

A fine of approximately 39 euros imposed on the applicant for having held an unlawful public rally.
Decision

Dissolution and ordering of the liquidation of the applicant association using “Silesian Nationality” in its title.
Judgment

Disciplinary sanctions on teachers with civil-servant status for participating during their working hours in strikes organised by their trade union, in breach of the constitutional ban on civil servants striking.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Applicants’ arrest and conviction for participating in a protest against the preannounced eviction of a squatted building.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Proscription of applicant association, entailing its dissolution and asset confiscation, due to considerable financial donations to charitable societies linked to the terrorist organisation Hamas.
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Disciplinary sanctions imposed on civil servants for having set up a stand at a university to promote a trade union and distribute leaflets.
Judgment

Decision ordering the applicant to pay, jointly with 45 other individuals, damages to reimburse medical expenses paid to police officers injured during a demonstration, despite being acquitted in criminal proceedings.
Judgment

Any restrictive measure taken against an applicant in connection with his or her expressive conduct constitutes an interference with his rights.
Decision | Legal Summary

​Custodial sentence imposed on an activist following his arrest at a peaceful demonstration.
Judgment

Alleged discriminatory dismissal of trade union leader on grounds of his union activities.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Applicants’ arrest and conviction for an administrative offence of disorderly conduct during public demonstration, namely holding banners with a lewd slogan.
Judgment

Conviction and prison sentencing for taking part in demonstrations with clashes. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Arrest and sanctioning for refusal to free road leading to Parliament entrances. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Legislation regulating trade union collective agreements.
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Application of Foreign Agents Act to non-governmental organisations and their directors.
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Policy of intolerance by authorities against Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Judgment

Reprisal measures and dismissal in reaction to a letter signed as trade-union chair on behalf of the Trade Union.
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Political party refused to hold a congress in certain towns.
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Criminal conviction of trade union representative for not admitting would-be members to join.
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Activist fined for a short and peaceful gathering, without prior notice, after handcuffing, with three other persons, to a government barrier in protest against a mining project.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prison sentence for having brandished a poster with a photograph of A. Öcalan during a march along an unauthorised route.
Judgment

Non-violent protest in a courthouse disturbing the orderly administration of the public service.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Applicability: a strike action undertaken outside trade union activity.
Decision | Legal Summary

Applicability: working prisoners and the right to join and form trade unions.  
Judgment | Legal Summary

Requirement to remove person suspected of an extremist offence from participation in the applicant association and subsequent dissolution.
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Refusal to allow peaceful public religious events.
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Reliance on situation in capital to justify a blanket ban on assembly in another city.
Judgment

Dissolution of an association for non-compliance with formal requirements and refusal to register a political party.
Judgment

Ruling finding union boycott unlawful under EEA law. Applicability and merits.
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Disruption of a film screening rescheduled for a later date by the applicant association.
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Deliberate strategy to stop initially peaceful protest through excessive force resulting in escalation of violence and multiple abuses by non-State agents hired by police. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Dissolution of applicant association due to bankruptcy proceedings against it, despite agreement in those proceedings to restructure, preserve and continue its activities.
Judgment

Police failure to ensure LGBTI event disrupted by counter-demonstrators proceeded peacefully, in breach of State’s positive obligations.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Arrest and conviction for administrative offences during a rally.
Judgment