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A Moscow District Court on Tuesday upheld the legality of the city's ban on gay pride parades , ruling that the city's 2007 prohibition against the Moscow Pride event was legal under Russian law and the...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Russian authorities were responsible for the shooting death of 11 unarmed civilians in Chechnya and ordered Russia to pay damages and court expenses totaling 163,864...

Case of Musayev and Others v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, July 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday ruled against Russia in the case of a former KGB agent who was detained under conditions that the court said "amounted to degrading treatment" . The ex-agent,...

Amnesty International Wednesday called for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to dismiss a UK request for a reconsideration of the absolute ban on torture and coercion in ECHR case law. The court is...

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld a 2006 Moscow ban on gay pride parades , dismissing an appeal by parade organizers . The decision handed down Friday upheld a Moscow...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Russian authorities were responsible for the deaths of four members of a Chechen family. The court ordered Russia to pay $114,000 to the family of...

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Tuesday that Poland plans to appeal a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that found Poland in violation of Article 8 of the...

The judicial panel of the UK House of Lords ruled Wednesday that Human Rights Act of 1998 (HRA) applies to British soldiers overseas in the case of killed Iraqi detainee Baha Musa . The Law...

UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday denied allegations published in The Independent that he advised Army officials to deny UK detainees in Iraq legal protections guaranteed under the Human Rights Act of 1998 (HRA)...