ECHR rules Swiss courts violated Caster Semenya's right to fair hearing

Uniunea Europeana

July 10 (UPI) -- The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Switzerland violated South African runner Caster Semenya's right to a fair hearing over her challenge to rules requiring her to take hormones to compete. The ECHR's Grand Chamber ruled 15-2 that as a South African national, Semenya has no personal connection to Switzerland and thus she falls outside Swiss jurisdiction in such matters. It ruled that the Swiss judicial system had "fallen short" of providing Semenya with a "