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001-4553
The applicant is a British citizen born in 1961 and currently detained in HM Prison Old Elvet, Durham. Before the Court, he is represented by Mr. B.T. Row, a solicitor practising in Newcastle. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. On 17 June 1993 the applicant was arrested an...
[2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
001-57904
7. The first applicant, Catharina Kroon, is a Netherlands national born in 1954. The second applicant, Ali Zerrouk, born in 1961, was a Moroccan national at the time of the events complained of; he subsequently obtained Netherlands nationality. Although they were not living together at the time, they had a stable relat...
[0, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 39, 40, 41, 49]
001-58115
9. Mr Mehdi Zana, a Turkish citizen born in 1940, is a former mayor of Diyarbakır, where he currently lives. 10. Since approximately 1985, serious disturbances have raged in the south-east of Turkey between the security forces and the members of the PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan). This confrontation has so far, acco...
[1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 27, 28, 30, 31]
001-58227
6. In 1929 K.N. inherited three-quarters of a tract of land known as the “Karras estate” from his adoptive father. In 1938 K.N.’s adoptive mother sold him the remaining quarter of the “Karras estate”, which she had inherited from her husband. The contract of sale gave the surface area of the “Karras estate” as 12,000,0...
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001-61317
9. The applicant was born in 1966 and lives in the Paris area. 10. The applicant has been physically disabled since the age of seven. He was adopted by Mr Bernard Poirrez, a French national, under the terms of a judgment of 28 July 1987 of the Bouaké Court of First Instance. On 11 December 1987 the Bobigny tribunal de ...
[3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 55, 57]
001-67816
15. The applicants, Mr Cumpănă and Mr Mazăre, were born in 1951 and 1968 respectively and live in Constanţa. 16. In decision no. 33 of 30 June 1992, Constanţa City Council, implementing government decision no. 147 of 26 March 1992, introduced a fine for drivers of illegally parked vehicles and entrusted the task of rem...
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001-69131
8. The applicants, Mr J.S. and Ms A.S. are a married couple residing in Stegna. 9. By way of an administrative decision of 29 October 1948 a property owned by the second applicant’s father W.U. and located in Czarzaste-Chodubki was expropriated pursuant to provisions of the 1944 Decree on Agrarian Reform. It was stated...
[4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26, 29]
001-73291
9. In 1990 the applicant founded and became the chairman of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Youth Party („Българска революционна младежка партия“). He ran for parliament in 1990 and in several later elections, unsuccessfully. Apparently he was also a presidential candidate in later elections on that party’s ballot. 10. At ...
[1, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 21, 30, 35, 36, 38, 40, 44]
001-76677
6. The applicant was born in 1944 and currently lives in Peru. 7. On 3 July 2003 the applicant, a suspected member of the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) organisation, a terrorist group founded in 1970 whose aim is to transform Peru’s political system by armed force into a communist proletarian regime, was arrested in ...
[1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 30]
001-77181
The applicant, Ms Olga Ivanovna Sherstyuk, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1965 and lives in the town of Popasnaya of the Lugansk region. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Zaytsev, of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The facts of the case, as submitted by the ...
[2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16]
001-80083
5. The applicant was born in 1971 and lived in Przemyśl, Poland. 6. On 14 August 1997 the applicant was arrested by the police. On 15 August 1997 the Przemyśl District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) decided to detain the applicant on remand in view of the reasonable suspicion that he had committed a homicide. 7. Subsequently, th...
[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28]
001-83482
6. The applicant was born in 1922 and lives in Granemore, County Armagh. 7. At about 10.40 p.m., shortly after closing time, on 6 June 1976, a police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (“RUC”) drove a car, stolen by RUC Reserve Constable Laurence McClure, up to the Rock Bar, a public house. The applicant was leav...
[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18]
001-90165
5. The applicant was born in 1948 and lived in Warsaw. 6. On 17 September 1997 the applicant was arrested by the police. On 18 September 1997 the Warsaw District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) decided to place the applicant in pre-trial detention in view of the reasonable suspicion that he had been involved in drug trafficking a...
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001-88523
The applicant, Mr Clarence Hornby, is a British national who was born in 1945 and lives in Wigan. He was unrepresented before the Court. The United Kingdom Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr C. Whomersley of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The facts of the case, as submitted by the p...
[2, 3]
001-97402
5. The applicant, Mr Mariusz Pińkowski, is a Polish national who was born in 1970 and lives in Częstochowa. 6. On 9 March 2000 the Częstochowa Regional Prosecutor (Prokurator Okręgowy) charged the applicant with being an accomplice to an armed robbery and murder in France. 7. On the same date the Częstochowa District C...
[1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27]
001-91415
5. The applicant was born in 1946 and lives in Pasiky-Zubrytski. 6. Since 1974 the applicant has worked as a teacher in the Lviv Boarding School no. 6 for Children with Language Disorders (“the School”). In 1995 he was elected head of the school branch of the “VOST” - one of the two trade unions represented in the Scho...
[6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 31]
001-90276
4. The applicants were born in 1924, 1932, 1940, 1949, 1946, 1944, 1937 and 1934 respectively and live in different cities in Turkey. 5. On various dates, the applicants inherited or bought plots of land and properties near the coasts in different parts of Turkey, namely in Çanakkale, Şarköy, Izmir, Mudanya and Seferih...
[2, 3, 4, 9]
001-102788
The applicant, Mr Józef Szyc, is a Polish citizen who was born in 1950 and is currently detained in Biała Podlaska Prison. The Polish Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr J. Wołąsiewicz of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised...
[5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15]
001-102634
5. The applicant was born in 1951 and lives in Tököl. 6. In 1999 the applicant was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for armed robbery by the Rimini Court in Italy. (The European Court of Human Rights subsequently held that the unfairness of the underlying proceedings gave rise to a violation of Article 6 § 1 of t...
[2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13]
001-102256
5. HADEP was a political party which had been established on 11 May 1994. At the time of its dissolution on 13 March 2003 its general secretary was the second applicant, Mr Ahmet Turan Demir, who had been elected to that post in February 2003. 6. In the general election held on 24 December 1995 HADEP received 1,171,623...
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001-101853
7. The first applicant, Mr Greens, was serving a determinate sentence of imprisonment at HM Prison Peterhead at the time his application was lodged with the Court. He was eligible for release on parole from 29 May 2010. It is not known whether he has been released on parole. The second applicant, M.T., is currently ser...
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001-107174
5. The applicant was born in 1977 and is serving a prison sentence in the Samara Region. 6. From 11 July to 22 October 2008 the applicant was held in remand prison no. IZ-63/2 of Syzran in the Samara Region pending criminal proceedings against him. 7. The Government and the applicant provided differing descriptions of ...
[2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 18, 24]
001-108189
5. The applicant was born in 1974. His present place of residence is unknown. 6. On 4 August and 5 November 2003 Ms Z. and Ms G. were robbed in their flats. The first robbery took place in the building where the applicant’s acquaintance Ms M. lived, while the second victim was her distant relative. 7. On 5 November 200...
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001-108225
4. The applicant was born in 1971 and currently lives in Riga. 5. On 23 November 1993 the applicant was arrested by the police and taken into custody on suspicion of having organised and paid the murder of his former business partner; the murder actually took place several days before his arrest. According to the prose...
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001-106159
1. The applicant was born in 1975 and lives in Brăneşti. He was represented before the Court by Mr S. Burduja, a lawyer practicing in Chişinău. The Moldovan Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr V. Grosu. 2. The applicant was charged with indecent acts committed on a fiveyear old girl, follo...
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