European Court of Human Rights Asked to Rule on Muhammad Cartoons
am 09.03.2006 von Law & JusticeThe European Court of Human Rights announced today that it has received an application from French Muslims asking it to declare the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (see them here, halfway down the page) in French newspapers an …
Danish Cartoon Case to be Judged by United Nations
Law & Justice / Whereas Denmarks Director of Public Prosecutions had recently decided not to press criminal charges against Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the twelve cartoons (see them here, halfway down the page), 27 Danish Muslim organi…
Danish Public Prosecutor Rejects Charging Newspaper for Muhammad Cartoons
Law & Justice / Denmarks Director of Public Prosecutions has decided not to press criminal charges against Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the twelve cartoons (see them here, halfway down the page). He upheld the earlier decision of a re…
Prohibited decrees in Warrington / Schwiegermutter heiraten
Transblawg / BBC News reports The European Court of Human Rights earlier this month ruled the ban on marriage between people who were in-laws is a breach of human rights. The decision came in a case brought by a man and his...…
House of Lords upholds Human Rights Act
Transblawg / Yesterday, the House of Lords held that imprisoning foreign terror suspects without charging them or trying them is against the European Convention on Human Rights. (Independent - Guardian) Here’s the text of the judgment. Curiously, not a day …
2 BvR 1481/04 vom 14.10.2004
BVerfG / In his constitutional complaint, the complainant challenges inter alia what he regards as the unsatisfactory enforcement of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of 26 February 2004 pronounced in his case and the disregard of inte…
EGMR im Fall Gäfgen
Jurabilis / Es war einer der ganz großen Fälle der letzten Jahre, der sowohl die Republik als auch die Rechtswissenschaften durchrüttelte: Der Kindermörder Gäfgen und die durch ihn angestoßene Folterdebatte. Diesen Montag will der Europäische Gericht…
Kollisionen
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Wenn Pressefreiheit gegen Persönlichkeitsrechte steht ... Summary: Link to a report (G) about a sentence of the European Court of Human Rights concerning restrictions of press reporting about private life of VIPs. [via Handakte]…
German Federal Constitutional Court decision in English/Bundesverfassungsgericht Entscheidung auf Englisch
Transblawg / The decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 14th October 2004, which was widely commented on in the press - it deals with how far German courts are obliged to enforce decisions of the European Court of Human Rights -...…
Moot Court with Top Justices
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Five justices of the Supreme Court in Civil Matters, Bundesgerichtshof, in Karlsruhe, Germany will judge the national moot court competition conducted by the European Law Students Assocation, the court announced today. The te…
Abu Ghraib, Darfur: Täter zur Verantwortung ziehen
Menschenrechte / Human Rights Watchs Weltbericht 2005 umfasst mehr als 60 Länder Die Lage der Menschenrechte und deren weltweiter Schutz hat sich im vergangenen Jahr durch die Darfur-Krise und den Abu Ghraib-Skandal nachhaltig verschlechtert, erklärte Human Rights…
Terror suspects no longer to be detained without trial in UK
Transblawg / In the entry House of Lords upholds Human Rights Act on December 17 2004, there was some heated discussion in the comments with the few select regular commenters here. I feel somewhat vindicated by today’s article in the Independent, headed...…
Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Die Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und Grundfreiheiten - Stand und Rahmeninformationen. Summary: Link to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as amended by Protocol No. 11, Rome, 04.11.1950.…
Human Rights Watch fordert Ermittlungen gegen Rumsfeld und Tenet
Menschenrechte / Es sei notwendig, dass die Vereinigten Staaten einen Sonderermittler einsetzen, der die Verantwortung von Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld und dem ehemaligen Direktor der CIA, George Tenet, im Zusammenhang mit dem Missbrauch und den Folterungen…
Nichts kann Attentate in London rechtfertigen
Menschenrechte / Die Bombenanschläge in London am Donnerstag waren ein Angriff auf das Prinzip ziviles Leben zu schützen und zu respektieren, erklärte Human Rights Watch. Die für diese Gräueltaten Verantwortlichen müssten gefasst und vor Gericht gebrach werden.…
European Digital Library Needs Clarification of Copyright Issues
Law & Justice / The “European Digital Library”, a European-led alternative to Google Print, is an initiative within the framework of i2010 Digital Libraries of the European Commission.The European Commission published the results of a consultation on the digital…
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Handakte WebLAWg / The CHRT applies the principles of the Canadian Human Rights Act to discrimination cases. At this site you can learn more about the jurisdiction, operations, members, rules and procedures of the Tribunal. There’s also a database of decisions an…
