Strasburg Court Rules on the Germany Responsibility for an Air Strike in Afghanistan

On February 16, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court or ECHR), Grand Chamber, delivered its judgment in the case Hanan v. Germany. The ruling concerns the procedural aspects of the responsibility of the government of Germany under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) deriving from the activities of its armed forces in Afghanistan in 2009.