The applicants, Shamil Adil oglu Abdulaliyev and Agil Azer oglu Ismayilov, are two Azerbaijani nationals who were born in 1985 and 1995 respectively. When their applications were lodged they were serving prison sentences in Baku for, among other things, murder, preparing terrorist acts, inciting mass disorder and illegally acquiring, possessing and carrying weapons. They were released in 2021, after receiving presidential pardons. The case concerns a police operation on a house in Nadaran (a suburb of Baku) to verify a tip-off that members of Müsəlman Birliyi (“the MB”), an unregistered religious movement established by a group of Shia Muslims in 2015, were preparing mass disorder and terrorist acts. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
ECHR: Abdulaliyev and Ismayilov v. Azerbaijan (applications nos. 64510/17 and 39664/18)
8. September 2026 — Dr. Georg NeureitherEGMR: Finnish decision to deport an Iraqi man who was killed when he arrived back in his country of origin violated the Convention
14. November 2019 — Dr. Georg NeureitherIn today’s Chamber judgment in the case of N.A. v. Finland (application no. 25244/18) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 2 (right to life) and Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights owing to decisions to deport the applicant’s father to his country of origin, Iraq, where he was subsequently killed. The Court found in particular that the Finnish authorities had not carried out a thorough enough assessment of the individual risks faced by the applicant’s father in Iraq although they had accepted his account of having faced two near deadly attacks in a context of tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslim groups, the father belonging to the latter. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
EGMR: Forthcoming judgment on Thursday 14 November 2019 – N.A. v. Finland (no. 25244/18)
7. November 2019 — Dr. Georg NeureitherThe applicant, Ms N.A., is an Iraqi national who was born in 1996 and lives in Finland. The case concerns her father’s expulsion to Iraq, where he was subsequently killed. The applicant’s father was a Sunni Muslim Arab from Baghdad. He served as a major in the army under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and then for an American logistics company after the fall of that regime. Between 2007 and 2015 he worked in the Iraqi Office of the Inspector General, part of the Interior Ministry, where he was an investigator and then a leading officer on human rights crimes and corruption cases. He often had to investigate intelligence service officers or officers in militia groups. His work became more dangerous when Shia militia gained prominence. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
