Stephen Matthews

Writer, filmmaker, host of the podcast ‘What’s happening in Georgia?’. Comms - ex-@EssexHRC, @KCL_Law, now @EHRAQ_hq.

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 Our new legal guide focuses on litigating enforced disappearances of a short duration.
🔴 You can read it now in English, Russian and Ukrainian: https://t.co/8B67qi7kHH

#HumanRights #EndEnforcedDisappearances
#DerechosHumanos #Desaparecida

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 Our new legal guide focuses on litigating enforced disappearances of a short duration. You can read it now, in English, Russian and Ukrainian: https://t.co/5sgskdYhN6

#Russia #Ukraine #EndEnforcedDisappearance #desaparecidos

#humanrights #DerechosHumanos #правачеловека

[Stephen Matthews @Mr_S_Matthews]

@OfficialBHAFC I haven’t received my mobile tickets for the Liverpool match. What do I do?

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

In 2025, we worked with partners in #Armenia , #Azerbaijan, #Georgia and #Ukraine to support victims of serious #humanrightsviolations in their search for #justice.

#humanrights #derechoshumanos #droitshumains
#правачеловека #insanhüquqları #մար��ուիրավունքներ #ადამიანისუფლებები

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 On 15 Jan, we'll be launching a #webinar series on UN individual accountability measures. The 1st of 3 webinars will provide an intro to the different avenues for pursuing complaints w. a focus on UN Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures.
Register now: https://t.co/k0u8cRL5Wd

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 Enforced disappearances of a short duration pose distinct challenges for victims and advocates including in the course of litigation.
🔴 Our new guide looks at the specific challenges of these cases: https://t.co/bR2wlGW7y6

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

Taking legal action against your own govt - particularly when that govt is authoritarian - is not easy.
Yesterday's judgment in Tsaava and Others v. #Georgia is testament to the brave protestors and journalists who stood up for their - and our - rights: https://t.co/V6CEnRTIgN

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has today found that #Georgia violated the #humanrights of 26 protestors and journalists injured during the dispersal of a 2019 protest.
Read more : https://t.co/V6CEnRTIgN

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

Georgian Dream has passed yet another law restricting the freedom of assembly. Once GD’s President Kavelashvili signs it, it becomes active immediately.

Under the new rules:

• Citizens must notify police at least 5 days in advance of any protest — even if it’s just on a sidewalk.
• Police can order protesters to change location, route, or time, and this order becomes binding.
• Blocking a road — even briefly — becomes grounds to declare the entire protest illegal and shut it down.
• If protesters refuse to obey within 15 minutes, police can disperse and detain.
• Even if the crowd complies within 15 minutes, it still counts as a violation and can be used against them.
• Administrative detention: up to 15 days (20 for organizers).
• Repeat charges trigger criminal liability — up to 1 year in prison.

This law is unconstitutional. Under Article 21, “Everyone… has the right to gather publicly and unarmed without prior permission.”

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

The Grand Chamber will hand down its judgment in Tsaava + Others v. Georgia, a case concerning the brutal dispersal of a protest in Tbilisi on Gavrilov's Night at 9:30 CET / 8.30 UK tmrw.

This case was co-litigated by @GYLA_CSO and EHRAC. We will be responding to the judgment.

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴On 20 June 2019, police opened fire, without warning, on a large crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia.
🔴Tear gas, water cannon and 800 rubber bullets were discharged, indiscriminately.
🔴240 people were recorded as hurt.
Tomorrow, the Grand Chamber will deliver its judgment.

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 The European Court of Human Rights has today found that the disbarment of a leading 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani human rights lawyer, Yalchin Imanov, led to violations of his freedom of expression and right to private life.
📕 Read more about this judgment: https://t.co/sBW3p7jfbQ

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

UKRAINE AND THE NETHERLANDS v. RUSSIA. Join us at 1PM #today for an expert panel discussion on this landmark ruling and its implications for #humanrights, armed conflict and #InternationalLaw.
🔴 Book your place now: https://t.co/iP6A9kvels

#litigation #ECHR
#Ukraine #Russia

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔵 UKRAINE AND THE NETHERLANDS v. RUSSIA: spotlight on the ECtHR judgment
🗓️ 1pm (UK), Monday 29 Sept, Zoom.
▶️ Register now on Eventbrite: https://t.co/KxqsmAlfQW

Our expert panel:
🔵 Judge Gnatovskyy, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights elected in respect of #Ukraine

[Mariam Nikuradze @mari_nikuradze]

Today is the 300th day of protest in Georgia.

[Anna Gvarishvili @AnnaGvarishvili]

.@LaszloRobMezes was attacked by Titushky in front of the GD campaign HQ. #GeorgiaProtests

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

To support lawyers working with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in taking a trauma informed approach, we have published a new annex to our Guidelines for Trauma Informed Legal Practice (TILP).
Download the annex now: https://t.co/PDb324b2rL

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔵 We asked the panelists at next Monday's event for their thoughts on the European Court of Human Rights' judgment in #Ukraine and the Netherlands v. #Russia.
🔵 Nadia Volkova ⬇️
🔵 Register now for our online panel discussion on Monday 29 September: https://t.co/W7qbXxV2bH

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

CW: police violence; excessive and lethal force.
🔴On 18 Sept, the European Court of Human Rights found 🇦🇲 Armenia violated the right to life of 9 activists who died as the result of the violent dispersal of protests against the 2008 presidential election result.

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[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

In July, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in UKRAINE AND THE NETHERLANDS v. RUSSIA. Join us on 29 Sept for an expert panel discussion on this landmark ruling and its implications.
Book your place now: https://t.co/4w0GmVO3JT