ECtHR 7 December 2021, app. no. 29582/09 (Yakut Republican Trade-Union Federation – v – Russia), Unions

• Summary

  A court’s order to a trade-union federation to expel a grassroots union of working prisoners because of a statutory ban on their unionization did not violate article 11-1 of the Charter. The ECtHR’s summary of the case is available on https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=002-13506.

• Ruling

  The Court:

  1. Declares, unanimously, the application admissible;

  2. Holds, by five votes to two, that there has been no violation of Article 11 of the Convention.