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Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia

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Monday, 11 January 2010
On 7 January 2010, in an historic first judgment concerning cross border human trafficking in Europe, the European Court of Human Rights has found violations of Articles 2, 4 and 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights in relation of Cyprus and Article 4 of the same Convention in relation of Russia. In a judgment, which confirmed that trafficking cannot be considered compatible with the values of the European Convention on Human Rights or with a democratic society, the Court has taken this opportunity to further clarify states’ obligations to protect against, as well as to investigate, trafficking. The case was brought by Nikolay Rantsev who claimed violations of Articles 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 of the he European Convention on Human Rights as there was no adequate investigation into the circumstances surrounding his daughter’s death, that her daughter was inadequately protected by Cypriot police while she was still alive and that there was a complete failure to punish the individuals responsible for exposing his daughter to the sexual exploitation and ill treatment which ultimately led to her death. He also complained about the lack of access to the judicial process in Cyprus (Article 6 of the Convention). The Court ordered the Cypriot Government to pay the applicant the sum of Euro 40,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage and Euro 3,150 in respect of costs and expenses and the Russian Government to pay a sum of Euro 2,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage. Interights was a third party intervener in the case. It submitted a brief highlighting the duty to protect and the duty to investigate, duties which are clearly emphasized in the Court’s judgment. Download Interights written submission in English or Russian . Download the judgment in English.You can also read more about the case through www.sutyajnik.ru (many of publications and documents) or www.interights.org.
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