View of the building European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg March 4, 2010. The European Court of Human Rights is due to hear a case brought against Russia by shareholders in collapsed oil firm Yukos. The former Yukos management accuses the Russian justice system of violating several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in prosecuting the company for alleged tax offences and seeks $98 billion as compensation. Former manager Mikhail Khodorowski is serving a jail sentence in Russia since 2006. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Documents lay on a desk at the European Court of Human Rights ahead of the beginning of an hearing on the Yukos versus Russia case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg March 4, 2010. The European Court of Human Rights is due to hear a case brought against Russia by shareholders in collapsed oil firm Yukos. The former Yukos management accuses the Russian justice system of violating several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in prosecuting the company for alleged tax offences and seeks $98 billion as compensation. Former manager Mikhail Khodorowski is serving a jail sentence in Russia since 2006. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

General view of the building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, January 30, 2009. Set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, the court celebrates it's 50st anniversary in 2009. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE) 

France's former detainee Lucien Leger, 71, waits for the beginning of an audience concerning his case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg April 30, 2008. Condemned in May 1966 to a life imprisonment sentence for the murder of an 11-year-old boy, and release in October 2005 after spending more than 41 years in prison, Leger complains that his continued detention was an inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE) 

Norway's Gerd Fleischer (R) talks to journalists ahead of a hearing on her case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, March 8, 2007. The case concerns 154 Norwegians, 4 Swedes and one German national, who all have a Norwegian mother and a German father and were born during the Second World War, registered as children of "Lebensborn", a Nazi scheme introduced by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, to create children who were deemed racially and genetically pure. They have brought their cases before the European Court of Human Rights today, complaining about the treatment they endured in Norway as war children. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE) 

General view of the building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, March 8, 2007. The European Court of Human Rights hold an hearing on Thursday on the case of 154 Norwegians, 4 Swedes and one German national, who all have a Norwegian mother and a German father and were born during the Second World War, registered as children of "Lebensborn", a Nazi scheme introduced by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, to create children who were deemed racially and genetically pure. They have brought their cases before the European Court of Human Rights today, complaining about the treatment they endured in Norway as war children. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE) 

Merve Safa Kavakci, a former member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and a member of Fazilet Partisi (the Virtue Party), waits for the start of the hearing of her case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, October 13, 2005. Kavakci, who took an oath before the National Assembly wearing an Islamic headscarf, contests a 2001 judgment of the Turkish Constitutional Court that dissolved Fazilet on the ground that the party had become a ?centre of activities contrary to the principle of secularism?. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler Pictures of the month October 2005