Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 11/20/2018

Subject: The judgment on the case of an opposition politician, who had been arrested and kept in pre-trial detention for a long time, in order to limit the freedom of the political debate and without assessing the possibility of alternative measures

Parties: Selahattin Demirtaş c. Turchia (no. 2)

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Personal security - Art. 12 Political parties - Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing - Art. 49 Proportionality of penalties