Margarita Ilieva

Margarita Ilieva is a strategic equality and human rights litigator, currently consulting for various international law organisations. She litigated domestically the Behar and Gutman, Budinova and Chaprazova, and Panayotova and Others cases, and lodged them with the Court during her tenure as Bulgarian Helsinki Committee Legal Director (2007 - December 2017). Other landmark cases she has litigated include Yordanova and Others and Karaahmed. (She has filed a formal request for rectification of the Court’s failure to reflect her representation of Behar and Gutman and Budinova and Chaprazova in the judgments.)

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Minority Vilification: Redress for Community Members

Minority Vilification: Redress for Community Members

On 16 February 2021, the European Court of Human Rights delivered landmark judgments against Bulgaria regarding ethnic minority berating: Behar and Gutman; Budinova and Chaprazov. The Court found violations of private life rights in ...