In Mammadov v Azerbaijan a woman had committed suicide by setting fire to herself in circumstances where police conducted an operation in a building in which he was unlawfully residing. The police could not have foreseen this, but the court indicated that once the risk became clear the obligation was to take steps to mitigate the risk that arose.<\/p>\n
Durmaz v. Turkey The applicant\u2019s daughter died in hospital after her husband had taken her to the emergency department, informing the doctors that she had taken an overdose of medicines. When questioned by the police, he also stated that the couple had had a row on the same day and he had hit her. The Court held that there had been a violation of Article 2 (right to life) of the Convention in its procedural aspect on account of the Turkish authorities\u2019 failure to carry out an effective investigation into the death of the applicant\u2019s daughter..<\/p>\n\n
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Duty to Deter Unlawful Killing States must put in place arrangements to deter unlawful killing. In Kilic v Turkey the applicant\u2019s siblings had disappeared and it was alleged that members of the security forces had been involved or were complicit. The European Court held that civilians associated with Kurdish separatism had been subject to serious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22921"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23545,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions\/23545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}