Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights

The Court, based in Strasbourg, was set up as a result of the European Convention on Human Rights, created in 1950. This set out a catalogue of civil and political rights and freedoms. It allows people to lodge complaints against States which have signed up to the Convention for alleged violations of those rights. Although founded in 1950, the Court did not actually come into existence until 1959. It gained its present form as a single European Court of Human Rights when Protocol No. 11 to the ECHR took effect in 1998.

The Court is currently made up of 47 judges, one in principle for every State signed up to the Convention. They are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and serve for six years. Judges sit on the Court as individuals and do not represent their country. Website: www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home

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CASE OF NUR AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE (Application no. 77647/11) The case mainly concerns the applicants’ complaints, under Article 5 of the Convention, that their arrest and detention as migrants in an irregular situation were unlawful, and that they were not informed of the reasons for their arrest and had no effective access to the procedure to challenge the lawfulness of their arrest and detention. It also concerns the eighth applicant’s complaint under Article 3 that she, a minor at the time, was not provided with adequate care in detention in connection with her pregnancy and the miscarriage she suffered. 16 July 2020 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) \| Topic(s): Access to procedures - Arbitrary arrest and detention - Right to liberty and security \| Countries: Eritrea - Guinea - Somalia - Ukraine
Samsam Mohammed Hussein and Others v. the Netherlands and Italy 2 April 2013 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Countries: Italy - Netherlands - Somalia
Hayaati Ahmed Ali v. The Netherlands and Greece 24 January 2012 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Access to procedures - Decision on admissibility \| Countries: Somalia
Xb. c. France et Grèce Décision sur la recevabilité. 9 November 2010 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Access to procedures - Non-refoulement - Reception - Safe third country - Single procedure \| Countries: Somalia

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