Tag: European Court of Human Rights
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Reasons against – Wöginger wants to amend the human rights treaty
While the Mediterranean countries are pressuring other EU partners to show more solidarity in taking in refugees, the ÖVP is loudly thinking about revising...
“Fairer” Execution Reform: Imprisoning Terrorists Is Getting Easier
The turquoise-green federal government has approved the long-discussed reform of enforcement measures. Mentally ill lawbreakers can only be detained for life if the...
Constitutional Court Decision – OPEC Labor Law Exemption Unconstitutional
OPEC's exemption from Austrian labor courts is unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court (VfGH) examined the state treaty with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...
Rejected by the Supreme Court – Hessenthaler now wants to appear before a human rights court
The alleged mastermind behind the Ibiza video, Julian Hessenthaler, who was not legally sentenced to three and a half years in prison, has now...
Judgment in Strasbourg – success for Russian woman after forced abortion
A Russian woman has been awarded €19,500 in damages from the European Court of Human Rights for a forced abortion. The prosecutor, who...
