European Court of Human Rights

The Turkish state, after a decision taken by the General Directorate of Foundations (GDF), yielded to the community of Ortaköy (spelled Mesochori in Greek), a small village, within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, a building that had previously...

Although Greece’s government has said it will not ban the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights said there is enough evidence of the party’s support for violence to outlaw the group. Nils Muiznieks said...

The European Court of Human Rights will hold a hearing on Jan. 8 regarding an appeal made by Greek Helsinki Monitor, which is calling on the abolishment of requiring witnesses in court to swear a religious oath before testifying. The members of the...

The dramatic story of a Greek inmate of the Corydallos Prison Complex in Athens has gone viral over the past few days with the man dying on Dec. 6  in his cell only one day before the European Court...

The European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for mistreatment of an Albanian legal immigrant, Arben Lisha. Mr. Lisha had appealed against Greek authorities for mistreatment after he was deported to Albania. He used to reside in Skala Lakonias,...

A Greek student who took part in the country's first gay wedding may take lawmakers to the European Court of Human Rights after they declared the marriage invalid. No Greek has forgotten the dispute that broke out back in...

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case Sitaropoulos and Giakoumopoulos v. Greece, which is final, the European Court of Human Rights delivered the unanimous verdict that: The inability of Greeks living abroad to vote in parliamentary elections from...

Greece’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by the Xanthi Turkish Union (İTB) to allow the use of the term “Turk” in the organization’s name. Despite the 2008 decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which found...

On Tuesday, January 17, the European Court of Human Rights found that Greek Coast Guard officials tortured Necati Zontul when he was raped in detention at the port of Chania, Crete, in 2001, and ordered Greece to pay 50,000...

According to the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued on November 2nd, 2010, Greek-Cypriots were forcibly displaced during the Turkish invasion in 1974. Now the ECHR has decided that Turkey is obliged to pay millions of...