(CN) — Two sexual violence cases from Iceland took sharply different paths on Tuesday at the European Court of Human Rights, with judges finding a rights violation in one involving a teenage girl while turning away broader claims of institutional bias linked to four abandoned investigations.
Seen together, the decisions spotlight a familiar tension in the Strasbourg, France-based court. Laws designed to protect survivors can fall short when they are not properly applied. At the same time, investigative failures in individual cases do not automatically prove a justice system is stacked against victims.
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