Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 12/21/2020

Subject: Grand Chamber Judgment, in which the Court found several violations of the Convention connected to the right to freedom of expression, to liberty and security, to the control in short terms of the legitimacy of the detention and to the right to free elections and ordered the immediate release of the political opposer Demirtaş

Parties: Selahattin Demirtaş c. Turchia (n° 2)

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Personal security - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Citizens’ rights - Art. 39 Universal suffrage, direct, free and secret ballot - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal