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Russia fined 10M euros for Georgians’ arrest, expulsions

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FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2015 file photo, Amanda Knox, left, talks to reporters as her mother, Edda Mellas, right, looks on outside Mellas' home in Seattle. Europe's human rights court has ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox around 18,000 euros ($20,000) in financial damages for police failure to provide legal assistance and a translator during questioning following the Nov. 1, 2007 killing of her British roommate. The European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France, has ruled on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 that Italy must pay Knox 10,400 euros damages plus 8,000 euros for costs and expenses. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

Europe court orders Italy to pay damages to Amanda Knox

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 29, 2017 file photo, psychiatrist Dr. Lieve Thienpont poses during an interview with The Associated Press, in Ghent, Belgium, one of the few countries that allow for euthanasia. Europe's top human rights court has agreed to hear a case being brought against Belgium by a man whose mother was euthanized in 2012 for depression, the second case that implicates one of Belgium's leading euthanasia doctors. (AP Photo/Maria Cheng, file)

Europe’s top rights court to hear Belgian euthanasia case

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

European court: Russia’s ban on LGBT rallies violates rights

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 1, 2013, file photo, gay rights activists carry rainbow flags as they march during a May Day rally in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Russia faulted by human rights court for discriminating against LGBT rallies

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny smiles before his hearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Nov.15, 2018. Russia is awaiting the European court ruling on whether it violated the rights of Navalny when arresting him on repeated occasions. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

European court: Russia’s arrests of Navalny were political

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

In this selfie photo released by Anti-corruption Foundation Press Service, Russian anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny at Domodedovo international airport outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Navalny was stopped at the border Tuesday and barred from leaving Russia as he was about to travel to a court hearing at the European Court for Human Rights in France. (Alexei Navalny/Anti-corruption Foundation press service via AP)

The Latest: Navalny hails European court victory

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President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani announces the winner of the Sakharov Prize in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday Oct. 25, 2018. The European Union has awarded its human rights prize to Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned in Russia accused of plotting acts of terrorism. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias) ** FILE **

Lessons for the U.S. from EU’s courts of P.C.

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

European court rejects Austrian’s case over prophet slur

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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2015, file photo, Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu. Europe's human rights court is about to publish what could be a landmark ruling on the legality of mass surveillance. The case brought by civil liberties, human rights and journalism groups and campaigners challenges British surveillance and intelligence-sharing practices revealed by American whistleblower Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

Court: British surveillance violates European law

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to explanations of Director of the Kurchatov nuclear and scientific research institute Mikhail Kovalchuk in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia moves to override human rights court after state-run surveillance deemed unlawful

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Abu Zubaydah, an alleged facilitator for al Qaeda, has received so-called victim status in the criminal investigation into the CIA prison in Poland. (Associated Press)

Poland to pay terror suspects al-Nashiri, Zubaydah, $262K; men held at secret CIA prison

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Action, right, and her organization's attorney Mike Dean, defenders of Wisconsin's state ban on gay marriage, talk to reporters after attending a hearing before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on the challenges to Indiana and Wisconsin's gay marriage ban Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

KISKA & La RUE: Europe stands strong for traditional definition of marriage

By Roger Kiska and Joseph La Rue

This May 18, 2010, file photo shows Oum Al Khyr Charlton, gesturing while addressing reporters during a press conference held in Montreuil, east of Paris. A ban on the burqa-style veil, voted on Tuesday in the Senate, would affect only a tiny minority of Muslim women, estimated at less than 2,000, making it far less controversial than France's 2004 ban on Muslim headscarves in classrooms, which proliferated in heavily immigrant neighborhoods.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, file)

France’s burqa ban upheld by human rights court

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated July 25, 1974, Turkish troops in position on the frontline some 500 yards form the outer perimeter and 400 yards from Greek position at the Nicosia Airport, Cyprus. Europe's top human rights court on Monday May 12, 2014, ordered Turkey to pay 90 million euros ($123 million) to Cyprus over the 1974 invasion of the island and its subsequent division, in one of the largest judgments in its history, saying that the passage of time did not erase responsibility in the case. The judgment comes as the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities are engaged in renewed efforts to reunite the island. (AP Photo/Max Nash, FILE)

Court orders Turkey to pay Cyprus over 1974 invasion

By Desmond Butler - Associated Press