CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Sliaptsova, Maryia |
|---|---|
| Title | Preventing Terrorism or Suppressing Dissent: Example of Russia and Turkey through the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights |
| Summary | Anti-terrorism is essential for the modern society to be able to prevent heinous crimes of terrorism from happening and avoid its destructive consequences. In applying anti-terrorism measures, states are permitted to restrict human rights, however, there are limits to such restrictions. International and regional bodies, such as the UN and the European Court of Human rights, provide guidance on the balance between human rights protection and security considerations. However, such norms are still vague, and states have an opportunity to use the most restrictive measures in the domain of anti-terrorism. Moreover, some states tend to “repurpose” anti-terrorism measures to suppress dissent in their societies. The purpose of this thesis is to look into ways, how the states may misuse anti-terrorism to silence opposing voices through the comparative analysis of national legislation and practice of Turkey and Russia in light of the case-law and standards of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The main focus is on the infringement on the rights enshrined in Art. 10 and Art. 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights by anti-terrorism measures. The main finding is that the ECtHR is quite successful in balancing of anti-terrorism measures and human rights protection standards, however, it avoids addressing the more systematic problem of misuse of such measures. |
| Supervisor | Uitz, Renáta |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/sliaptsova_maryia.pdf |
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