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Upsurge in number of Hungarian cases
11/01/2012
The Registrar of the Court, Erik Fribergh, has announced that special measures will be taken to deal with the thousands of Hungarian applications received by the Court since mid-December 2011. Most of these cases concern the same issues relating to retirement pensions.
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Hungarian version)
Priority treatment
20/12/2011
The Court has decided to give priority treatment to complaints by the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko concerning her detention. The applicant, the leader of the main opposition party in Ukraine, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in October 2011. She alleges, in particular, that her prosecution and detention were politically motivated.
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Hearings
Recent hearing
11/01/2012
The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case
of
Vistiņš and Perepjolkins v. Latvia. The case
concerns the expropriation of land to
enlarge the Autonomous Commercial Port of Riga in the 1990s.
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Webcast of the hearing
Forthcoming hearing
11/01/2012
On 25 January 2012, the Court will be holding a Grand Chamber hearing
in the case of
Catan and Others v. Moldova and Russia. The case
concerns complaints about the
prohibition to use Latin script in schools in the self-proclaimed unrecognised entity
known as “Moldovan Republic of Transdnistria”.
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Release
Calendar of hearings
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Chamber judgments
Recent judgment
22/12/2011
In the case concerning the siege of the Dubrovka theatre by Chechen separatists in October 2002 the Court held that there had been no violation of the Convention regarding the use of force and gas against the terrorists. It did, however, find that the rescue operation had not been well planned or implemented.
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