Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights sets limits on criminalisation, forbidding ex post facto criminalisation by signatory countries.

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Case law

• Handyside v United Kingdom (1976; no violation found, 13–1)
• Kokkinakis v. Greece (1993; no violation found, 8:1)
• Nikola Jorgić (2007; application ruled partly inadmissible and no violation found, unanimously)
• Mykolas Burokevičius (2008; no violation found, unanimously)
• Vassili Kononov (2010; no violation found, 14:3)
• Maktouf and Damjanović v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (2013; violation found, unanimously)
• Nikolay Tess (2014; application ruled inadmissible, unanimously)

Other judgements involving Article 7

• Ines Del Rio: case of the Parot doctrine

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