ECHR ON DISPOSSESSION IN FORMER EAST GERMANY

Potentially huge ruling from the European Court of Human Rights today: in 1990, Germany violated Title 1 of the European Convention of Human Rights by forcing non-farmers to give up land that had been given to them in 1945 by the East German government for agricultural purposes. Here's the ECHR press release, and here's the story on Deutsche Welle. And the Bundesministerium der Justiz issued this press release today. BMJ notes that the land in dispute is around 100,000 hectares. See also the Sueddeutsche Zeitung here.