Council of Europe court ruling on the European Convention on Human Rights
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The European Court of Human Rights sits in Strasbourg, France, and applies the European Convention on Human Rights; it was established on January 21, 1959 and became a permanent full-time court on November 1, 1998. It has 46 judges, one for each Council of Europe member state, and hears applications from individuals, groups and non-governmental organisations as well as inter-state cases. In the linked stories it ruled on February 20, 2024 that Switzerland committed three violations over a 2015 Zurich identity check, found on June 26, 2025 in Seydi and Others v. France (6 votes to 1) that identity checks gave rise to an unrebutted presumption of discrimination, and ruled in D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic (2007), Horvath and Kiss v. Hungary (2013) and Szolcsan v. Hungary (2023) and against North Macedonia (December 2022) on Roma school segregation. The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which supervises compliance, reported on December 4, 2025 and June 11, 2026 that progress remained lacking in several of these cases.
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The Court unanimously found a violation of Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention on account of the applicant's 'pushback' to Türkiye.