Judgment Laguna Guzman v. Spain - protestor injured in police intervention to disperse spontaneous gathering
(WorldNews Belgium)

issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 274 (2020) 06.10.2020 Rights breach of protestor left permanently injured after police intervened to disperse spontaneous gathering In today`s Chamberjudgment1in the case of Laguna Guzman v. Spain(application no. 41462/17) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned the applicant`s complaint that she had been left permanently injured after the police forcefully dispersed a spontaneous gathering that had taken place after an official demonstration. The Court found in particular that the...