Editing Right of return (section)

==Right of return in case law==
Few cases have dealt with the right of return principle. In 1996, the [[European Court of Human Rights]] (ECHR) ruled in a landmark case known as ''[[Loizidou v Turkey]]''. Mrs [[Titina Loizidou]] was a [[Greek-Cypriot]] refugee displaced from [[Northern Cyprus]] and prevented from returning by [[Turkey]]. The court ruled that Turkey had violated Mrs Loizidou's human rights, that she should be allowed to return to her home and that Turkey should pay damages to her.<ref>Enrico Milano, ''Unlawful territorial situations in international law'', p.143</ref>

In a similar case, petitioners for the [[Chagossians]] asked the ECHR in 2005 to rule about their removal from [[Diego Garcia]] by the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]] in the 1960s. The court ruled in 2012 that their case was inadmissible and that by accepting compensation, the islanders had forfeited their claim:

{{blockquote|The Court notably found that the heart of the applicants' claims under the European Convention on Human Rights was the callous and shameful treatment which they or their antecedents had suffered during their removal from the Chagos islands. These claims had, however, been raised in the domestic courts and settled, definitively. In accepting and receiving compensation, the applicants had effectively renounced bringing any further claims to determine whether the expulsion and exclusion from their homes had been unlawful and breached their rights and they therefore could no longer claim to be victims of a violation of the Convention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?library=ECHR&id=003-4207010-4992253&filename=003-4207010-4992253.pdf|title="Chagos islanders' case inadmissible because they accepted compensation and waived the right to bring any further claims before the UK national courts"}}</ref>}}