Grand chamber hearing for Finnish transexual’s human rights protest

The case concerns a male-to-female transsexual’s complaint that full official recognition of her new gender was conditional on her marriage to a woman being turned into a civil partnership.

Court: Ukraine breached human rights of former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko

The European Court of Human Rights held in particular that Tymoshenko’s pre-trial detention had been arbitrary, that the lawfulness of her detention had not been properly reviewed and, that she had no possibility to seek compensation for her unlawful deprivation of liberty.

Dublin Regulation: Court rejects Somali mum’s human rights appeal

The case concerned Samsam Mohammed Hussein, who claimed that she and her two young children would be subjected to ill-treatment if transferred from the Netherlands to Italy under the Dublin Regulation.

Judges halt French deportation of suspected Darfur rebels collaborator

The case concerned the complaint of a Chadian national that deporting him to his country of origin would expose him to the risk of ill-treatment by the police there to punish him for allegedly siding with the rebels in Darfur.

France: Fingerprints decision breached human rights law

The case concerned a French man who complained that his fingerprints had been retained on a database by the French authorities.