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Cypriot women demonstrate on September 16, 2021 in front of Nicosia's supreme court, in support of a young British woman who alleged she was raped by up to 12 Israelis in a hotel room in the seaside party resort of Ayia Napa in July 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)
February 27, 2025, 2:56 pm
European Human Rights Court: Cyprus failed UK woman who claimed Israeli gang rape
ECHR agrees with complainant that Cypriot authorities breached obligations to effectively investigate and prosecute her 2019 allegations against group of tourists who were released
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The building of the European Court of Human Rights in in Strasbourg, France, March 13, 2012. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
February 15, 2024, 8:50 pm
Top European rights court upholds bans on halal, kosher slaughter in Belgium
Rabbi slams ‘a black day for Europe’ amid fears other countries will follow suit; critics say the bans infringe on religious practice
By JTA and Canaan Lidor
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Sept. 10, 2004. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority, Hussein Hussein)
November 11, 2022, 5:50 pm
Decade-old testimony from PA probe into Arafat’s death leaked to Palestinian press
Outlets unveil accounts from top PA officials convinced of unproven claim that ex-leader was poisoned; source says leak aimed at settling scores amid Ramallah succession fight
By ToI Staff
In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric enter a hall for their joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, October 19, 2020. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)
March 15, 2022, 9:44 pm
Russia to quit Council of Europe, calls it an ‘instrument for anti-Russian policies’
Move comes amid mounting pressure for Moscow to be expelled from the pan-European rights body over its invasion of Ukraine
By Marc Antoine BAUDOUX and Stuart Williams
File - Late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, right, and then-Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, in the West Bank seat of the PA, Ramallah, December 31, 2001. (AP Photo/Mohammed Rawas)
July 1, 2021, 3:39 pm
European Court of Human Rights refuses to hear case on Arafat’s death
Lawsuit brought by Palestinian leader’s widow and daughter alleged he died of polonium poisoning
By AFP
A medical worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, California, January 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
April 8, 2021, 4:40 pm
European rights court says forced vaccination ‘necessary in democratic society’
Judges back Czech regulations compelling parents to inoculate kids against childhood diseases, in ruling that could have wide implications for COVID-19 vaccine policy
By Herve ASQUIN
Far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 20, 2021, 6:59 am
Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules
Judicial system erred when it ignored complaints that far-right politician Volen Siderov incited against Jews and Roma, European Court of Human Rights says
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)
June 11, 2020, 2:11 pm
European rights court faults France for convicting Israel boycott activists
Authorities told to compensate 11 BDS proponents after French appeals court fined them for urging shoppers not to buy Israeli products
By AFP and ToI Staff
Far-right paraphernalia is on sale at the Schild und Schwert (Shield and Sword) neo-nazi festival, in the small eastern German town of Ostritz on April 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)
October 3, 2019, 6:57 pm
Holocaust denial not a human right, European court rules
Judges rule against German neo-Nazi politician Udo Pastoers, say his statements run counter to European Convention on Human Rights itself
By AFP
The building of the European Court of Human Rights in in Strasbourg, France, March 13, 2012. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
April 6, 2018, 4:24 am
European court rejects German’s complaint over conviction for Himmler post
Human rights court says blogger failed to distance himself from Nazi ideology in pro-migrant post
By AP
This undated hand out photo shows Charlie Gard provided by his family, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London. (Family of Charlie Gard via AP)
July 3, 2017, 9:21 pm
Trump offers support for terminally ill British baby
US president joins Pope Francis’s call for doctors to save Charlie Gard after European court ruled treatment would prolong suffering
By Issam Ahmed
Michael Weingarten
May 17, 2017, 3:50 pm
Michael Weingarten
The dignity of the hunger striker
In the tension between honoring a patient’s wishes and saving his life lies a path toward conciliation
A Thursday Jan. 12, 2017 photo from files showing Anders Behring Breivik, as he sits in court on the third day of the appeal case in Borgarting Court of Appeal at Telemark prison in Skien, Norway. (Lise Aaserud /NTB Scanpix via AP)
March 1, 2017, 11:08 pm
Court: Norway didn’t violate rights of mass murderer Breivik
Solitary confinement does not constitute ‘torture or inhuman or degrading treatment,’ special safety measures required
By JAN M. OLSEN
This photo taken on September 20, 2012, shows the house were Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria. (AFP PHOTO/APA/MANFRED FESL)
January 31, 2017, 6:13 pm
Ex-owner of Hitler house sues Austrian government
Braunau resident launches legal battle against expropriation, which aims to prevent site becoming neo-Nazi shrine
By AFP
Jakob Finci, head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Jewish community, in his Sarajevo office (Anne Joseph/The Times of Israel)
November 28, 2015, 2:06 am
In post-war Bosnia, Jews celebrate 450 years of survival
Living in a country once marred by sectarian conflict, Jewish leader Jakob Finci says his 1,000-strong community ‘feels safe’ 20 years after the end of the Bosnian War
By Anne Joseph
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