European Court of Human Rights Orders Italy to Pay Damages to Amanda Knox

On January 24, 2018, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment, awarding €18,400 to Amanda Knox, a U.S. national and former student who spent years in detention in Italy after her conviction in connection with the murder of her flatmate.[ The Court’s press release explains that in the case of Knox v. Italy (application no. 76577/13) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, in her favor on three of the four issues. Ms Knox was born in 1987 and at the time of the events was 20 years old.  She had lived in Perugia (Italy) for about two months as a foreign student. She had a temporary job in a pub run by D.L.  She had been dating Raffaele Sollecito, her boyfriend, for two weeks. On November 2, 2007, at approximately 12:30 p.m., the police went to Ms. Knox’s flat and found Ms. Knox there together with Sollecito, who had called the policy to inform them that he had found a broken window and traces of blood in the…

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