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| Charlie Gard: Parents await European Court of Human Rights ruling | Charlie Gard: Parents await European Court of Human Rights ruling |
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| A final ruling will be made on the fate of a terminally ill baby boy whose parents want to take him to the US for treatment. | A final ruling will be made on the fate of a terminally ill baby boy whose parents want to take him to the US for treatment. |
| Ten-month old Charlie Gard has a rare genetic condition and brain damage, and doctors want stop his life support. | |
| His parents launched a challenge in the European Court of Human Rights after losing a Supreme Court appeal, exhausting all UK legal options. | |
| Judges in Strasbourg are due to make a final decision later. | |
| Ahead of the ruling, Charlie's parents issued a photo of them on the rooftop of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital. | |
| 'Die with dignity' | |
| The court has told doctors to continue providing life support treatment to Charlie until midnight on Tuesday, to give them time to examine papers filed by his parents' lawyers. | |
| Charlie has been in intensive care since October last year. He has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the genetic building blocks that give energy to cells. | Charlie has been in intensive care since October last year. He has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the genetic building blocks that give energy to cells. |
| His doctors said that Charlie can not see, hear, move, cry or swallow. | His doctors said that Charlie can not see, hear, move, cry or swallow. |
| Specialists added that therapy proposed by a doctor in America is experimental and will not help. | Specialists added that therapy proposed by a doctor in America is experimental and will not help. |
| A High Court judge in April ruled against a trip to America and in favour of Great Ormond Street doctors. | A High Court judge in April ruled against a trip to America and in favour of Great Ormond Street doctors. |
| Mr Justice Francis concluded that life support treatment should end and said Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity. | Mr Justice Francis concluded that life support treatment should end and said Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity. |
| Three Court of Appeal judges upheld that ruling in May and three Supreme Court justices on Thursday dismissed a further challenge by the couple. | Three Court of Appeal judges upheld that ruling in May and three Supreme Court justices on Thursday dismissed a further challenge by the couple. |
| On Monday, parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates, from Bedfont, west London, shared a photo of Charlie with his eyes open. | |
| Connie Yates posted the image on Facebook with the message "a picture speaks a thousand words". | Connie Yates posted the image on Facebook with the message "a picture speaks a thousand words". |
| "As quoted from the judgement . . . 'He is not consistently able to open his eyes enough to be able to see. Indeed, this leads to the difficulty that his brain is failing to learn to see'." | "As quoted from the judgement . . . 'He is not consistently able to open his eyes enough to be able to see. Indeed, this leads to the difficulty that his brain is failing to learn to see'." |