EU court reaffirms their ruling that Amanda Knox's defense rights were violated

European Court of Human Rights reaffirms that Amanda Knox's rights were violated, meaning the Italian state will have to pay Knox damages.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, announced Tuesday that a closed court hearing reaffirmed the court's January decision that Amanda Knox's defense rights had been violated in 2007 during police questioning about the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

In rejecting the request, the court made the ruling final, and the Italian state will have to pay Knox damages. The judgment will be transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which supervises the enforcement of European Court judgments. This should end Knox's legal proceedings in Italy.

Rudy Guede, a young man from the Ivory Coast who had grown up in Perugia, was convicted of Kercher's murder in a separate trial in 2008 and is serving a 16-year sentence.

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