Article 14 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 - Prohibition of discrimination
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Abo v. Estonia (dec.), no. 29295/22
Inadmissibility of complaint concerning refusal to recognise the applicant as an Estonian citizen because her grandmother (an “optant”) did not settle in Estonia to validate her citizenship as stipulated by the Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920.
Decision
Spišák v. the Czech Republic, no. 13968/22
Longer period of automatic judicial review of pre-trial detention for minors than for adults prosecuted for the same category of offence.Longer period of automatic judicial review of pre-trial detention for minors than for adults prosecuted for the same category of offence.
Judgment
Allouche v. France, no. 81249/17
Conduct of criminal proceedings concerning antisemitic insults and threats sent by email.
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Wa Baile v. Switzerland, nos. 43868/18 and 25883/21
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: racial profiling during an identity check of a dark-skinned man at Zurich's main train station.
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Executief van de Moslims van België and Others v. Belgium, nos. 16760/22 and 10 others
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 9: obligation to stun animals prior to their ritual slaughter.
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Georgian Muslim Relations and Others v. Georgia, no. 24225/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Articles 8 and 9: failure to comply with the positive obligation to provide adequate protection to individual applicants from unlawful mob action, hate speech and other discriminatory actions by private parties in the context of their being prevented from opening a Muslim boarding school.
Judgment
Stott v. the United Kingdom, no. 26104/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 5: difference in treatment in early release eligibility between prisoners serving an extended determinate prison sentence vis-à-vis standard determinate sentence prisoners and discretionary life sentence prisoners.
Judgment
Memedova and Others v. North Macedonia, nos. 42429/16 and 2 others
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 4: refusal to allow persons of Roma ethnicity to leave Respondent State’s territory.
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Pająk and Others v. Poland, nos. 25226/18 and 3 others
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: legislation differentiating between men and women with regard to the retirement age of judges.
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Valiullina and Truši v. Latvia, nos. 56928/19 and 2 others
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1: legislative amendments increasing the proportion of subjects taught in the State language, that is Latvian, and thus reducing the use of Russian, as the language of instruction in public schools.
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Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, no. 43651/22 (pending before the GC)
Article 1 of Protocol No. 12: inability of the applicant, due to a combination of territorial and ethnic requirements, to vote for candidates of his choice in legislative and presidential elections.
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Semenya v. Switzerland, no. 10934/21 (pending before the GC)
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: discrimination against a professional athlete who was required under non-State regulations to lower her natural testosterone level to compete in the women’s category in international competitions.
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Nurcan Bayraktar v. Türkiye, no. 27094/20
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 12: refusal to exempt the applicant, without her undergoing a medical examination to prove that she was not pregnant, from the 300-day waiting period imposed on divorced women wishing to remarry.
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Nepomnyashchiy and Others v. Russia, nos. 39954/09 and 3465/17
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: domestic authorities’ failure to respond adequately to homophobic statements made by state officials against members of the LGBTI community.
Judgment
A.E. v. Bulgaria, no. 53891/20
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 3: domestic authorities’ failure to adequately address domestic violence against women.
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Szolcsán v. Hungary, no. 24408/16
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 2: segregation of a Roma pupil in a primary school.
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Paun Jovanović v. Serbia, no. 41394/15
Article 1 of Protocol No. 12: lawyer prevented from using a variant of the Serbian language despite its official status.
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Hoppen and trade union of AB Amber Grid employees v. Lithuania, no. 976/20
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 11: alleged discriminatory dismissal of trade union leader on grounds of his union activities.
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Moraru and Marin v. Romania, nos. 53282/18 and 31428/20
Article 1 of Protocol No. 12: gender discrimination in civil-service retirement ages. Applicability and merits.
Judgment
Elmazova and Others v. North Macedonia, nos. 11811/20 and 13550/20
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1: discrimination of Roma pupils on account of their segregation in two State-run primary schools attended predominantly by Roma children and with Roma-only classes respectively.
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Bakirdzi and E.C. v. Hungary, nos. 49636/14 and 65678/14
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1: national-minority voting system.
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Moraru v. Romania, no. 64480/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1: discrimination on grounds of height and weight to study military medicine.
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M.T. and Others v. Sweden, no. 22105/18
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: temporary three-year suspension period for family reunification of persons with subsidiary protection status in contrast to those with refugee status.
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Basu v. Germany, no. 215/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: allegations of racial profiling during identity check on a train. Applicability and merits.
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Muhammad v. Spain, no. 34085/17
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: allegations of racial profiling during identity check on the street. Applicability and merits.
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Zeggai v. France, no. 12456/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: alleged discrimination based on date of birth.
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Beeler v. Switzerland [GC], no. 78630/12
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: termination of widower’s pension when the youngest child reaches the age of majority while widows continued to receive one. Applicability and merits.
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Pinkas and Others v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, no. 8701/21
Article 1 of Protocol No. 12: difference in treatment by domestic courts, on the basis of “other status”, of judicial clerks vis-à-vis judges, concerning period of entitlement to work-related allowances.
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P.C. v. Ireland, no. 26922/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1: convicted prisoner statutorily disqualified from old-age pension payments while incarcerated. Applicability and merits.
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Advisory opinion on the difference in treatment between landowners’ associations “having a recognised existence on the date of the creation of an approved municipal hunters’ association” and landowners’ associations set up after that date [GC], no. P16-2021-002
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No.1: difference in treatment between landowners' associations in the context of hunting rights on private land.
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Dimici v. Türkiye, no. 70133/16
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1: refusal to allow a woman to receive income from a charitable foundation on the basis of an Ottoman-era legal document.
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Paparrigopoulos v. Greece, no. 61657/16
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: father of child born out of wedlock unable to exercise parental authority without mother’s consent, in spite of parentage established by DNA test.
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P.W. v. Austria, no. 10425/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 5: applicant resisting police not in a relevantly similar situation to an individual who has hit a private person.
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Stoyanova v. Bulgaria, no. 56070/18
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2: homophobic motives underlying a murder not constituting a statutory aggravating factor and having no measurable effect on sentencing.
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Savickis and Others v. Latvia [GC], no. 49270/11
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1: difference in treatment based on nationality in the context of the restoration of a State’s independence after unlawful occupation and annexation.
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Arnar Helgi Lárusson v. Iceland, no. 23077/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: lack of wheelchair access to two public buildings. Applicability and merits.
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X and Others v. Albania, nos. 73548/17 and 45521/19
Article 1 of Protocol No. 12: failure to implement swift and comprehensive desegregation measures in an elementary school attended almost exclusively by Roma and Egyptian children.
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L.F. v. the United Kingdom (dec.), no. 19839/21
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: exclusion of non-members of Orthodox Jewish Community from social housing owned by a charity catering for that community.
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T.C. v. Italy, no. 54032/18
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: order prohibiting a Jehovah’s Witness from actively involving his young child, brought up in Catholicism, in his religious practice.
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Oganezova v. Armenia, nos. 71367/12 and 72961/12
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 3: homophobic arson attack and hate-driven mobbing campaign, including public hate speech by high-ranking officials, and homophobic online abuse. Applicability and merits.
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Landi v. Italy, no. 10929/19
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2: domestic violence and murder of her one-year-old son.
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Anderlecht Christian Assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Others v. Belgium, no. 20165/20
Article 14 in conjunction with Articles 9 and 1 of Protocol No. 1: failure to grant congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses exemption from property tax.
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Vool and Toomik v. Estonia, nos. 7613/18 and 12222/18
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: no long-term visits with cohabiting partners during detention on remand as opposed to convicted prisoners.
Judgment
Y and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 9077/18
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2: no evidence that failure to protect life against domestic violence was due to gender-based discrimination.
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Zakharova and Others v. Russia, no. 12736/10
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 11: discrimination on grounds of trade union membership through dismissal of employees.
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A and B v. Georgia, no. 73975/16
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 2: domestic violence culminating in murder by a police officer.
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Negovanović and Others v. Serbia, nos. 29907/16 and 3 others
Article 1 of Protocol No. 12: different legal treatment for people with disabilities in the world of sports. Applicability and merits.
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Tunikova and Others v. Russia, nos. 55974/16 and 3 others
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 3: continued failure to adopt legislation to combat domestic violence against women and provide protective measures.
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Tapayeva and Others v. Russia, no. 24757/18
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: children kidnapped by father-in-law against the background of regional gender stereotypes and patrilineal practices.
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León Madrid v. Spain, no. 30306/13
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8: automatic imposition of surname order, paternal followed by maternal.
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