Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya has won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.

Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion runner, achieved a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights against sex eligibility rules. The court ruled that her rights to a fair hearing were violated at Switzerland's Supreme Court.

A top European court will decide Thursday whether double Olympic champion Caster Semenya can be required to lower her testosterone levels to compete as a woman, in a key decision on contested gender testing.

Eleven activists had filed an appeal with Europe's top human rights court, arguing France had impeded their right to freedom of expression.

Europe's human rights watchdog Friday expressed concern that Serbian authorities were using excessive force and arbitrary detentions to break up street protests against the populist government of President Aleksandar Vucic.