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• ↓ What Happens When a State Ignores Strasbourg? The Kavala Judgment and the Authority of the European Court of Human Rights
• ↓ Kanev v. Bulgaria: How far can the ECtHR sail tied to the mast of proceduralist review of surveillance?
• ↓ Providing Psychiatric Care Does Not Justify Imposing It: What Spivak, Albertani and Andrea Ciotta add to the ECtHR’s mental-health case law
• ↓ D.M. v. Sweden: Hazara ethnicity, apostasy, “westernisation”, and the ability to “play the game” under article 3 ECHR
• ↓ Yasak v. Türkiye – Mens rea as a procedural Convention right
• ↓ Giving birth at home in C.P. v. Spain: a unique and delicate moment ruined by the coercive intervention of the Spanish authorities
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"By Emilia Klebanowski On 25 August 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) delivered its landmark judgment in Kavala v Türkiye (No. 2). Sitting as a Grand Chamber, the Court found by fifteen votes to two that Turkey had violated Articles 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 18 of the European Convention […]"

"By Basil Saen As reported earlier on this blog, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) issued an interesting Grand Chamber judgment in Yasak v. Türkiye on 5 May 2026. This case sits in the context of mass prosecutions and convictions of alleged members of the ‘Fetullahist Terrorist Organisation/Parallel State Structure’ (the […]"

"By Merel Spaander “Indeed, giving birth is a unique and delicate moment in a woman’s life. It encompasses issues of physical and moral integrity, medical care, reproductive health and the protection of health-related information,” stated the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in its assessment of C.P. v. Spain on 11 June 2026. […]"

"By Engin Firat Everyone is calling G.K. and A.S. v. Switzerland the vegan judgment. On 16 July 2026 the European Court of Human Rights held for the first time that dietary rules ‘dictated by genuine and consistently held vegan beliefs’ fall within the scope of Article 9 of the Convention, the freedom of thought, conscience […]"

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What Happens When a State Ignores Strasbourg? The Kavala Judgment and the Authority of the European Court of Human Rights

Kanev v. Bulgaria: How far can the ECtHR sail tied to the mast of proceduralist review of surveillance?

Providing Psychiatric Care Does Not Justify Imposing It: What Spivak, Albertani and Andrea Ciotta add to the ECtHR’s mental-health case law

D.M. v. Sweden: Hazara ethnicity, apostasy, “westernisation”, and the ability to “play the game” under article 3 ECHR

Yasak v. Türkiye – Mens rea as a procedural Convention right

Giving birth at home in C.P. v. Spain: a unique and delicate moment ruined by the coercive intervention of the Spanish authorities