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Home Office's Rwanda flight GROUNDED – as FM Nicola Sturgeon issues warning

THE Home Office has cancelled the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda – after last-minute legal challenges and a key European ruling…

The National (Scotland)

Rwanda deportation flight called off at last minute after European judges intervene

The flight that was scheduled to deport the first refugees to Rwanda will not take off following a series of eleventh-hour interventions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The Independent UK

‘I’m very worried’: Sister of Iranian Kurd on Rwanda flight pleads for help

Exclusive: Iranian Kurd on flight says ‘tell my family I love them, I’m sorry for everything’

The Independent UK

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First flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda in doubt after ECHR intervention

THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has intervened at the last minute in the UK Government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, which…

The National (Scotland)

Rwanda asylum flight cancelled after 11th-hour ECHR intervention

First flight to Rwanda grounded after lawyers make successful emergency application

The Guardian - UK

European court rules Russia's 'foreign agent' law violates rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Russia's legislation on "foreign agents" violated the rights of the groups designated as such and ordered Russia to pay many of them compensation.

Reuters

Council of Europe rebukes UK over Troubles immunity plan

Body criticises plan to grant conditional immunity to people accused of murder in Northern Ireland conflict

The Guardian - UK

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Russian forces control most of eastern Ukraine's Severodonetsk, governor says

Russian forces control most of the strategic Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk and are heavily shelling the twin city of Lysychansk, causing major damage, the governor of Luhansk region said on Wednesday. This comes as fighting intensifies in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Read about the day’s events as they unfolded on…

France 24

Russian parliament votes to exit European Court of Human Rights

The Russian State Duma on Tuesday passed a pair of bills ending the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisdiction in Russia, after Russia announced plans to exit the court amid the conflict in Ukraine.

Reuters

Brexit: Boris Johnson warned he risks EU sanctions with assault on Human Rights Act

Measures are at heart of Queen’s Speech designed to show the UK is shaking off Brussels ‘fetters’ following Brexit

The Independent UK

Human Rights laws slowing action on abortion clinic buffer zones, FM says

Calls for buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland have intensified in recent weeks

The National (Scotland)

Turkish opposition vows to overturn sentences against Kavala, others

Turkish opposition leaders vowed to overturn jail sentences against philanthropist Osman Kavala and seven others convicted at the end of a case that lawyers said showed courts had become the government's "vehicle for revenge".

Reuters

Timeline: Turkish court sentences Kavala to life imprisonment

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole on Monday on charges of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

Reuters

Turkish philanthropist Kavala jailed for life, activists protest

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole on Monday after he was convicted of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

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Al Jazeera

Turkish court sentences activist Osman Kavala to life in prison

Kavala, found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government, is a cause celebre for opponents of President Erdogan.

Reuters

Turkish court set to rule in trial of philanthropist Kavala

A Turkish court is expected to reach a verdict in a hearing beginning on Friday in a long-running case against philanthropist Osman Kavala and 15 others that has strained Ankara's ties with Western allies.

The Guardian - UK

Replacing Human Rights Act will weaken protections, say peers and MPs

Joint committee on human rights says plans contravene principle that human rights are universal

The Independent UK

How would those accused of Ukraine war crimes be prosecuted?

Even as the conflict in Ukraine rages, a vast apparatus is being built to gather and preserve evidence of potential violations of international laws of war that were written after World War II

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey Court Extends Detention of Top Activist Osman Kavala

A Turkish court ordered leading activist Osman Kavala to remain in prison Monday, amid fresh calls for his release in the high-profile case that has drawn widespread rebuke. The 64-year-old philanthropist has been held without conviction since October 2017, accused of financing 2013 anti-government protests and playing a role in…

Reuters

Rights court points to 'systemic dysfunction' in Polish judges' appointments

The European Court of Human Rights pointed on Thursday to a "systemic dysfunction in judicial appointments procedure in Poland", ruling that a company had been denied its right to a proper hearing due to how judges were appointed.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey Condemns Referring Kavala Case to ECHR as Interfering in Judiciary

A European human rights watchdog will refer the Turkish case against philanthropist Osman Kavala back to a top European court, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, adding that the move amounted to interfering in its judiciary. Kavala, one of Turkey's highest-profile detainees, has been held for more than four years…

Reuters

Turkey condemns referring Kavala case to ECHR as interfering in judiciary

Al Jazeera

Rights groups slam Royal Jet over Bahrain extradition flight

The Emirati airline flew Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali from Serbia to Bahrain, where he faces torture, rights groups say.

The Guardian - AU

Nara Walker: the Australian woman suing Iceland

Walker was convicted of assaulting her ex-husband in Reykjavík in 2017. Now she and eight other women are taking Iceland to court claiming human rights violations

Al Jazeera

Bahraini political dissident extradited from Serbia

Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali was extradited despite an ECHR ruling he not be sent home pending further investigations.

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