European Court of Human Rights failures revealed as members ignore rulings

Sep 23, 2017 by

by Jon Rogers, Daily Express:

National governments of the 47 members of the Council of Europe have ignored the rulings of 9,944 judgements with some cases stretching back to 1992, according to the Council’s database.

Cases ruled as a violation of human rights include segregating HIV-positive prisoners in Greece, police brutality in Bulgaria, to failing to properly investigating deaths of prisoners in Romania.

The court ruled in 2014 that the detention of Ilgar Mammadov, an opposition leader in Azerbaijan, was a human rights violation — but he is still in prison three years later.

Mr Mammadov’s case will be highlighted at the quarterly meeting of the Council of Europe ministers later this week.

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