European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights enumerated in the convention or its optional protocols to which a member state is a party. The court is based in Strasbourg, France.
European Court of Human Rights building
A segment of the Berlin Wall in front of the European Court of Human Rights
Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
International courts are formed by treaties between nations, or by an international organization such as the United Nations – and include ad hoc tribunals and permanent institutions but exclude any courts arising purely under national authority.
Defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg