Realization of the right to free movement under quarantine conditions: practice of the European Court of Human Rights

  • Anzhelika Krusian Head of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and International Law of the Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law
  • Vadym Tsiura Professor of Civil Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Boris Perezhniak Professor of Constitutional Law Department of National University “Odesa Law Academy” Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine
  • Roman Sabodash Associate Professor of Civil Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Lyudmila Kazakova Associate Professor of International Politics Department of Uzhorod National University
Keywords: realization of human and civil rights and freedoms, ECTHR practice, freedom of movement, personal inviolability, COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Under uncertain conditions, the introduction of a state of emergency and quarantine measures, the scope of human rights may be subject to state interference and some rights cannot be exercised at all. The aim of the work is to examine the problem of the exercise of the right to freedom of movement and personal integrity in the context of COVID-19 through the practice of the European Court of Human Rights ECTHR. The theme of the study is the social relations that arise in the exercise of the right to freedom of movement and personal integrity in the COVID-19 pandemic. Research methods are the dialectical method, the method of system analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling, comparison, generalization, and formalization. As a result of the study, the problems of the realization of the right to freedom of movement and personal inviolability in COVID-19 were analyzed through the prism of ECtHR decisions. The international experience of regulating the right to circular under quarantine conditions was clarified and suggested ways to solve this problem to protect human dignity.

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Author Biographies

Anzhelika Krusian, Head of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and International Law of the Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law

Doctor of Legal Science, Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and International Law of the Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law.

Vadym Tsiura, Professor of Civil Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Doctor of Legal Science, Professor of Civil Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Boris Perezhniak, Professor of Constitutional Law Department of National University “Odesa Law Academy” Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine

Doctor of Legal Science, Professor of Constitutional Law Department of National University “Odesa Law Academy” Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine.

Roman Sabodash, Associate Professor of Civil Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Ph. D., Associate Professor of Civil Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Lyudmila Kazakova, Associate Professor of International Politics Department of Uzhorod National University

Ph. D., Associate Professor of International Politics Department of Uzhorod National University.

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Published
2021-03-06
How to Cite
Krusian, A., Tsiura, V., Perezhniak, B., Sabodash, R., & Kazakova, L. (2021). Realization of the right to free movement under quarantine conditions: practice of the European Court of Human Rights . Political Questions, 39(68), 103-120. Retrieved from https://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/cuestiones/article/view/35401
Issue
Vol. 39 No. 68 (2021): Cuestiones Políticas
Section
Derechos Humanos

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