ECHR: Article 8 of European Human Rights Convention violated

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated in the case of the exhumations of the 2010 Smoleńsk air crash victims.Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence." The European Court of Human Rights issued the verdict in a case regarding the exhumations of the victims of the 2010 Smolensk air disaster. The exhumations had been opposed by the families of the victims. The complaint was filed with the Strasbourg tribunal in April 2017, by Ewa Solska and Małgorzata Rybicka, whose husbands were killed in the Smolensk air disaster on April 10, 2010. The ECHR also decided that Poland is to pay a compensation of EUR 16,000 to each of the complainants.