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Alekseyev and Others v. Russia (Eur. Ct. H.R.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

Pieter Cannoot*
Affiliation:
Dr. Pieter Cannoot is a postdoctoral researcher at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium).

Extract

On November 27, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter the ECtHR or the Court) delivered a judgment in the case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia. The judgment is one of the latest episodes in a series of applications launched by well-known Russian LGBT+ activist Nikolay Alekseyev. In the judgment, the Court unanimously found violations of several articles of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), including the right to nondiscrimination.

Type
International Legal Documents
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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ENDNOTES

1 See, e.g., Case of Alekseyev v. Russia, App. Nos. 4916/07, 25924/08, and 14599/09 (Oct. 21, 2010) [hereinafter Case of Alekseyev v. Russia]; Case of Zhdanov and Others v. Russia, App. No. 12200/08 (July 16, 2019).

2 Case of Bayev and Others v. Russia, App. No. 67667/09 (June 20, 2017).

3 See Pieter Cannoot & Claire Poppelwell-Scevak, ECtHR Finds Russia's Gay Propaganda Law Discriminatory in Strong-Worded Judgment, Strasbourg Observers (July 11, 2017), https://strasbourgobservers.com/2017/07/11/ecthrfinds-russias-gay-propaganda-law-discriminatory-in-strongworded-judgment/.

4 Case of Alekseyev v. Russia, supra note 1.

5 Case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia, App. No. 14988/09 (Nov. 27, 2018) [hereinafter Case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia], Concurring Opinion of Judge Dedov.

6 Case of Alekseyev v. Russia, supra note 1, ¶ 77.

7 Id. ¶ 76.

8 Id. ¶ 81.

9 Id. ¶¶ 82–86.

10 Id. ¶¶ 97–100.

11 Id. ¶¶ 106–10.

12 Case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia, supra note 5, Partly Dissenting Opinion of Judge Keller, ¶ 23.

13 Id. ¶ 24.ß.