Contents
Abbreviations / 17
Relevant Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) / 19
Section 1: Legal Developments and News / 21
Criticism of extreme penalties for stone-throwing children / 23
UN creates single entity to promote women’s empowerment / 23
Annual OSCE, UN and CoE meeting: Gender and Comprehensive Security focus / 23
EU accession to the ECHR / 24
Media freedoms under threat in OSCE States / 24
Lack of human rights progress in Syria / 24
Journalists under pressure from Kurdish Regional Government / 25
Police officers accused of beating and arresting journalist in Turkey / 25
Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan / 26
British Government launches torture inquiry / 26
Ban on burqa-wearing in public / 26
CESCR List of Issues regarding Turkey / 27
Section 2: Articles / 29
The Abyei Arbitration: A Model for Other Situations? / 31
John R. Crook, Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School
The Pilot Judgment Procedure at the European Court of Human Rights: / 41
Possibilities and Challenges
Antoine Buyse, Assistant Professor, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights,
Utrecht University
A. ECHR Case News: Admissibility / 59
Decisions and Communicated Cases
Right to life - Babar Ahmad and Others v United Kingdom (24027/07) Admissibility / 59
Right to fair trial - Adrian Mihai Ionescu v Romania (36659/04) - Admissibility / 61
- Van Anraat v the Netherlands (65389/09) - Admissibility / 63
- Öcalan v Turkey (5980/07) - Inadmissibility / 65
Application concerning a claim for less than 1 Euro - Korolev (II) v Russia (25551/05) - Inadmissibility / 66
B. Substantive ECHR Cases / 68
Right to life - Carabulea v Romania (45661/99) - Judgments / 68
- Fadime and Turan Karabulut v Turkey (2387/04) / 69
- Perişan and Others v Turkey (12336/03) / 71
- Vasil Sashov Petrov v Bulgaria (63106/00) /73
- Shakhabova v Russia (39685/06) / 74
Prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment - Arpat v Turkey (26730/05) - Judgments / 76
- Ahmadpour v Turkey (12717/08) / 78
- Baran and Hun v Turkey (30685/05) / 79
- Biçici v Turkey (30357/05) / 81
- Çelik v Turkey (39326/02) / 82
- Davydov and Others v Ukraine (17674/02) / 84
- Dbouba v Turkey (15916/09) / 85
- Garayev v Azerbaijan (53688/08) / 87
- Lopata v Russia (72250/01) / 89
Right to liberty and security - D.B. v Turkey (33526/08) - Judgment / 90
Right to a fair trial - Hakimi v Belgium (665/08) - Judgments /92
- Karadağ v Turkey (12976/05) / 94
Right to respect for private and family life - Kuric and Others v Slovenia (26868/06) - Judgments / 96
- Turán v Hungary (33068/05) / 97
Freedom of expression - Andreescu v Romania (19452/02) - Judgments / 99
Bingöl v Turkey (36141/04) / 100
Cox v Turkey (2933/03) / 102
Gül and Others v Turkey (4870/02) / 104
Gözel and Özer v Turkey (43453/04 and 31098/05) / 105
Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v the Netherlands (38224/03) / 106
Sapan v Turkey (44102/04) / 107
Turgay and Others v Turkey (8306/08) / 108
Freedom of assembly and association - Çerikçi v Turkey (33322/07) - Judgment / 109
Right to free elections - Sitaropoulos and Others v Greece (42202/07) - Judgment / 110
Prohibition of discrimination - Aksu v Turkey (4149/04) - Judgment / 111
C. International Cases / 113
International Court of Justice -Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo (Advisory Opinion of 22 July 2010) - Advisory Opinion / 113
European Court of Justice - E & F (Case 550/09) EU-Terrorism List Declared Invalid (29 June 2010) - Judgments / 115
Court of Appeal of England and Wales - Bisher Al Rawi and Others v The Security Service and Others (2009) EWHC 2959 - Judgment (Closed material procedure – open defence) / 116
Supreme Court of the United States Holder v Humanitarian Law Project (2010) WL 2471055 - Judgment / 117
Abbreviations
CESCR Committee on Economic Social Cultural Rights
CoE Council of Europe
CPCS Commission on the Prosecution of Civil Servants
CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists
ECHR European Convention on Human Rights
ECtHR European Court of Human Rights
ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
KHRP Kurdish Human Rights Project
KRG Kurdistan Regional Government
LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
OSCE Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
PACE Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
PKK Kurdistan Workers’ Party
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees
Relevant Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights
Article 1: Obligation to respect human rights
Article 2: Right to life
Article 3: Prohibition of torture and ill-treatment
Article 4: Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
Article 5: Right to liberty and security
Article 6: Right to fair trial
Article 7: No punishment without law
Article 8: Right to respect for private and family life
Article 9: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Article 10: Freedom of expression
Article 11: Freedom of assembly and association
Article 12: Right to marry
Article 13: Right to an effective remedy
Article 14: Prohibition of discrimination
Article 35: Admissibility criteria
Article 38: Examination of the case and friendly settlement proceedings
Article 41: Just satisfaction to the injured party in the event of a breach of the Convention
Article 43: Referral to the Grand Chamber
Article 44: Final judgments
Protocol No. 1 to the Convention
Article 1: Protection of property
Article 2: Right to education
Article 3: Right to free elections
Protocol No. 4 to the Convention
Article 2: Right to freedom of movement and liberty to choose one’s residence
Protocol No. 6 to the Convention
Article 1: Abolition of the death penalty
Article 2: Death penalty in time of war
Article 3: Prohibition of derogations
Article 4: Prohibition of reservations
(2010) 18 KHRP Legal Review
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention
Article 1: Procedural safeguards relating to expulsion of aliens
Article 2: Right of appeal in criminal matters
Article 3: Compensation for wrongful conviction
Article 4: Right not to be tried or punished twice
Protocol No. 11 to the Convention
Article 19: Establishment of the Court
Article 20: Number of judges
Article 21: Criteria for office
Article 22: Election of judges
Article 23: Terms of office
Protocol No. 12 to the Convention
Article 1: General prohibition of discrimination | 
