Gendered political oppression remains difficult to identify and assess within existing human rights jurisprudence, particularly in cases involving women political dissenters. While the European Court of Human Rights is a key venue for challenging political repression, the gendered dimensions underlying such claims do not attract the same attention. This talk presents the pilot study, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), “Women political dissenters: going beyond the text of European human rights rulings”. The project examines two landmark cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights – Zarema Musayeva and Vanessa Kogan – through the PAN (process-actors-narrative) approach to human rights litigation. By reconstructing the procedural evolution of these cases, identifying the actors who shaped them, and situating them within their broader socio-political contexts, the study seeks to develop and test an analytical framework for examining gendered political oppression.