On 29 April 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) granted part of the applicants’ requests to issue an interim measure in the case of Đorović and Others v. Serbia (App.no. 8904/25). The case involves the alleged use of a sonic weapon for crowd control by the authorities at demonstrations and the concern that it could be used at future demonstrations. In this contribution, I argue that at this point, the decision of the Court to grant interim measures was justified while we wait to see what will be written down in the application and subsequently what decision will be delivered by the Court. Moreover, the contribution discusses the lack of legal basis for the possible use of these kinds of weapons in Serbian legislation and the latest published report from the investigation conducted by the Russian FSB. Context and content of the request for the interim measure For five months and more, students across Serbia have been demanding that the institutions act in accordance…
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Corporate Human Rights and International Law: Obstacle or Precursor to Human Rights Accountability?
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' Introduction The topic of debate is whether corporate human rights pose an obstacle or precursor to their own accountability for human rights violations. Many might have an intuitive…
Anti-war Protest: The Historic Case of Novaya Gazeta and Others v Russia
Born into a Jewish family in Ukraine, Vasily Grossman’s monumental account of totalitarian Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate, which included a remarkable portrayal of the battle of Stalingrad during World War II, was banned by the KGB before it could be published in the Soviet Union. In response, Grossman wrote to the then Soviet leader,…
Context, Content, and the ‘Threshold of Severity’: ECtHR’s Jurisprudence on Satire vs Hate
On 3rd December 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR/Court) delivered its decision in the case of Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia [App. No. 226 of 2018]. In Yevstifeyev, the ECtHR addressed two distinct applications, wherein the first application involved homophobic verbal assaults and threats against LGBTI activists, which the Court deemed a violation of Article…
Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy: Towards Applying a Precautionary Approach to the Right to Life
On 31 January 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”, “the Court”) ruled on large-scale environmental pollution caused by the illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste in Italy. In Cannavacciuolo and Others, the Court found that Italy violated its obligations under the right to life, enshrined in Article 2 ECHR. The judgment, spanning more than…
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