#European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

Investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis, whose trilogy of books stirred a wave of controversy after his writings described Cyprus as a mafia state embroiled in corruption, has lodged an appeal with ...

Cyprus failed in its legal duty to investigate a British woman’s allegation in 2019 that she had been gang-raped by Israeli tourists on the holiday island, the European Court of ...

A woman who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband won an appeal in Europe’s top human rights court, ...

The right to a fair trial of two Cypriots jailed for their part in the so-called Dromolaxia scandal, a dodgy land deal that came under investigation in 2013, was not violated, ...

All effective domestic legal remedies must be exhausted by people claiming compensation or restitution for properties owned in Cyprus prior to 1974 before a case can be filed at the European ...

The government on Wednesday denied carrying out pushbacks, arguing its migration policy is in line with EU and international law. Its defence came a day after a damning European Court ...

Making agreements with Lebanon to stem the tide of would-be refugees is misguided, Associate International Law and Human Rights’ professor Aristotelis Constantinides said on Wednesday. The UCy expert made the ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Cyprus to pay €12,000 to Evangelia Zavridou for moral damage, as it ruled her right to respect of private and family life ...

The rejection of Cyprus’ three nominees to sit on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)’s judges election committee ...

The Parliamentary Committee of the Council of Europe has recommended rejecting the list of candidates submitted by Cyprus for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). According to a decision ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday rejected Turkey’s appeal against its ruling that the country had violated the human rights of a Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector ...

Cyprus on Tuesday received a slap on the wrist from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its treatment of two asylum seekers who arrived on the island in 2019. ...

A Turkish court sentenced former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas to more than 40 years in jail on Thursday for instigating protests in 2014 triggered by an Islamic State attack on the ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy’s long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek ...

The ‘government’ in the north has secured £68 million sterling (€79 million) to pay compensation to Greek Cypriots who applied to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) and whose claims were processed by ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu, which was due to take place on Thursday, has been postponed to April 18. The north’s military court took the decision ...

President Nikos Christodoulides discussed issues related to the implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, in a meeting with the president of the court, Siofra O’ ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled as inadmissible an appeal by a Cypriot national that Cyprus authorities had violated his private and family life by ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos has hailed a Council of Europe committee decision to maintain its supervision of the case of property rights of Cyprus against Turkey, noting that more countries ...

The European Commission will continue to call on Turkey to fully and speedily implement all European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgements, the Commission said in a letter, expressing its ...

National guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s family is determined to open private criminal proceedings against those who they deem responsible for covering up his death in 2005, lawyer Christos Triantafyllides told the ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ruled in favour of a Russian citizen who argued his lengthy detention in Cyprus pending extradition violated his rights. According to ...

Court proceedings in Cyprus which ordered a woman to hand over her son to be extradited to the US to be with his father in 2017, did not violate the European ...

UK government is wrong to argue health workers cannot go on strike There are many rights in employment and industrial relations law that are not fundamental human rights, but the ...