Comments on: Cyprus v Turkey: Arming the European Court against States’ Complacency? https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/cyprus-v-turkey-arming-the-european-court-against-states-complacency/ Oxford Human Rights Hub Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Claire Overman https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/cyprus-v-turkey-arming-the-european-court-against-states-complacency/#comment-16854 Sat, 24 May 2014 15:55:24 +0000 http://humanrights.dev3.oneltd.eu/?p=8182#comment-16854 Hi Iain, thanks for taking the time to read the article. The ECHR may only be applied in disputes between Member States of the Council of Europe, who have signed up to it. The USA is not a signatory to the ECHR, and therefore its provisions do not apply to it. Interestingly, however, the ECtHR has been willing to hold the UK liable for violations in respect of Iraqi citizens in Iraq (see Al-Skeini v UK: http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/eu/cases/ECHR/2011/1093.html&query=Al-Skeini+and+v+and+UK&method=boolean#__RefHeading__161_438036205). In that case, the UK had failed to properly investigate the deaths of Iraqi citizens at the hands of the UK military, and was ordered to pay damages to the relatives of those killed.

]]> By: Iain Wright https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/cyprus-v-turkey-arming-the-european-court-against-states-complacency/#comment-16735 Sat, 24 May 2014 09:41:31 +0000 http://humanrights.dev3.oneltd.eu/?p=8182#comment-16735 “The Court has made clear that States will be held accountable in damages for invasions, wars, and other large-scale violations of the rights of citizens of other States.”

Does that mean that USA, UK, etc could be jointly liable to citizens of Iraq and/or Afghanistan for any violations of their civil rights?

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