The date is set, it should not move. The European Court of Human Rights will hold in less than three weeks, on Wednesday May 15, a Grand Chamber hearing in the case between South African athlete Caster Semenya and Swiss justice. This new episode of a very long series follows the request from the Swiss authorities to re-examine in a separate version the decision rendered by the court on July 11, 2023, which concluded that there was a violation of the rights of the double Olympic 800m champion. Caster Semenya had been successively rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the Federal Court in her complaint against a World Athletics regulation requiring her to reduce her testosterone level to participate in international competitions, but without definitively giving up on obtaining gain from cause. The European Court of Human Rights had found that Articles 14 (prohibition of discrimination) and 13 (right to an effective remedy), in conjunction with Article 8 (right to respect for private life) of the Convention had been violated by Switzerland.
