Boy kept in solitary confinement at Feltham Prison wins £31,500 payout The 15-year-old spent more than 23 hours a day stuck in his cell Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2023
Home Office Reveals The Government Paid Rwanda A Further £100m This Year The substantial payment was made in April of this year, the Home Office's top civil servant said in a letter to MPs, after £140m had already been sent to the African nation. International Business Times UK · Dec 11, 2023
UK's Sunak Faces Key Test Over Rwanda Migrant Policy Vote UK leader Rishi Sunak faces the riskiest week of his premiership, with lawmakers gathering Monday to decide whether to back his flagship policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. International Business Times · Dec 11, 2023
Sunak’s Rwanda legislation given ‘50% at best’ chance of success Ministers are said to have been told of a significant risk of planes being blocked by the European Court of Human Rights Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2023
Under-pressure UK PM Insists Rwanda Migrant Plan 'Will Work' UK leader Rishi Sunak insisted Thursday that his latest immigration plan would work, as the issue threatened to tear apart his ruling Conservatives, putting his premiership in jeopardy. International Business Times · Dec 7, 2023
British PM Sunak defends plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda Growing backlash among Conservative MPs after government published emergency legislation on Rwanda plan. Al Jazeera · Dec 7, 2023
The U.K. Supreme Court has struck down a plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda In a major defeat for the British prime minister, the Supreme Court has ruled the government's migrant plan is unlawful and would put asylum-seekers at risk of deportation back home. WEKU · Nov 15, 2023
Rishi Sunak vows to tear up UK laws and challenge judges to push through Rwanda plan RISHI Sunak has vowed to tear up UK laws and challenge human rights judges to press ahead with his unlawful Rwanda plan. The National (Scotland) · Nov 15, 2023
Britain’s highest court rules Wednesday on the government's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda Britain’s highest court is set to rule on whether the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is legal The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2023
Minister suggests Sunak could quit ECHR if government loses Rwanda court case Immigration minister Robert Jenrick says government ‘will do whatever it takes’ to ensure Rwanda flights take off ahead of showdown court verdict The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2023
Caster Semenya ‘not ashamed’ to be different as dispute continues The European Court of Human Rights found in July that Semenya’s human rights had been violated by the Swiss government The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023
Critically ill baby’s father fails in bid over ‘last ditch’ evidence Indi Gregory’s parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, have lost legal fights in London and at the European Court of Human Rights The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2023
Critically ill baby’s father ‘heartbroken’ as latest legal bid fails Indi Gregory’s parents hoped that judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg would intervene in a treatment fight The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023
Critically ill baby’s family ask European judges to consider their case Indi Gregory’s parents have made an application to the European Court of Human Rights after losing life-support treatment fights in London. The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023
The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2023 European court says Italy violated rights of residents near Naples over garbage crisis The European Court of Human Rights has found Italy violated the human rights of residents living in and around Naples by failing to manage a 15-year garbage and pollution crisis
The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2023 Bomb victim’s family consider taking new inquest request to European court The UK Supreme Court earlier upheld a decision to refuse a new inquest into the killing of Eugene Dalton in an IRA bomb in 1988.
The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2023 A European body condemns Turkey's sentencing of an activist for links to 2013 protests A European governmental body has condemned the decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court to confirm the aggravated life sentence for activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala
The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023 Leo Varadkar: I am prepared to take legal action against UK over legacy laws The Taoiseach acknowledged taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights would have political implications.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023 First Thing: Trump’s rivals accuse him of being ‘missing in action’ at Republican debate Seven candidates faced off at Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, with frontrunner Trump again choosing to skip. Plus, how New York is breaking free of Airbnb’s clutches
The Conversation · Sep 27, 2023 Portuguese youths sue 33 European governments at EU court in largest climate case ever A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately tackle global heating. Now, the Strasbourg court will be hearing them on 27 September,…
The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023 In landmark court case, 6 young activists take on 32 European nations over climate action Six Portuguese young adults and children between 11 and 24 years of age are at the European Court of Human Rights where they are accusing 32 European governments of violating their human rights for what they say is a failure to adequately address climate change
The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023 European court rules Turkish teacher's rights were violated by conviction based on phone app use The European Court of Human Rights says that the rights of a Turkish teacher convicted of terrorism offences were violated because the case was largely based on his use of a phone app
WEKU · Sep 25, 2023 Young climate activists challenging 32 governments will get their day in court Six young activists are due Wednesday at the European Court of Human Rights, where they're accusing 32 governments of violating their human rights for failing to adequately address climate change.
Radio France Internationale · Sep 25, 2023 Young people take European nations to court over climate failures Six young European people will bring 32 countries before the European Court of Human Rights for failing to do their part to avert climate catastrophe. The unprecedented hearing, to be held this week, is the world’s largest climate legal action to date.
Al Jazeera · Sep 21, 2023 Six Portuguese youth take 32 nations to European court over climate change The group will argue at the European Court of Human Rights that government inaction discriminates against youth.