Overview of Rule 9 Submissions in view of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies Human Rights Meeting June 2022
/From 8-10 June 2022, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Minister’s Deputies will meet for their quarterly Human Rights Meeting. This meeting will examine several judgments of the European Court of Human Rights that are still pending implementation. The agenda consists of 32 cases from 15 members of the Council of Europe.
24 EIN members/partners, other civil society actors, lawyers and applicants have made the following submissions for 16 cases under consideration. The list below sets out an overview of these submissions related to cases on the current agenda.
Overview of Submissions
Violation: Violations of the applicant’s right to privacy and freedom of expression in connection with her work as a journalist.
Last Examination: December 2020 - CM/Del/Dec(2020)1390/H46-3
Latest Submission:
MAMMADLI GROUP v. Azerbaijan
Violation: Arrest and pre-trial detention to punish the applicants for his activities in the area of electoral monitoring or for their active social and political engagement in breach of Article 18 taken in conjunction with Article 5.
Last Examination: March 2022 - CM/Del/Dec(2022)1428/H46-4
Latest Submissions:
VASILESCU GROUP v. Belgium
Violation: Structural problem concerning prison overcrowding, material conditions of detention and lack of effective remedies
Last Examination: March 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1398/H46-3
Latest Submission:
S.Z GROUP and KOLEVI v. Bulgaria
Violation: Systemic problem of ineffective criminal investigations with regard to shortcomings which affect investigations concerning both private individuals and law enforcement agents and lack of guarantees for the independence of criminal investigations against the Chief Prosecutor.
Last Examination: November – December 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1419/H46-8
Latest Submission:
STANEV v. Bulgaria
Violation: Unlawfulness of the placement in social care home of the applicant with mental disorders; lack of judicial review and poor living conditions; impossibility for the applicant, partially incapacitated, to request the restoration of his legal capacity.
Last Examination: June 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1406/H46-8
Latest Submissions:
BEKIR OUSTA AND OTHERS GROUP v. Greece
Violation: Refusal of domestic courts to register associations.
Last Examination: September 2021 - CM/Del/Dec(2021)1411/H46-14
Latest Submissions:
CORDELLA AND OTHERS v. Italy
Violation: Lack of reaction on the part of the authorities to air pollution by steelworks, to the detriment of the surrounding population’s health and lack of an effective remedy to obtain decontamination of the affected areas.
Last Examination: March 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1398/H46-14
Latest Submission:
DI SARNO AND OTHERS v. Italy
Violation: Region polluted by non-collected waste: prolonged inability of the Italian authorities to ensure waste collection, treatment and disposal in the region of Campania and absence of a remedy in this regard.
Last Examination: September 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1411/H46-20
Latest Submission:
L. v. Lithuania
Violation: Lack of legislation governing the conditions and procedures relating to gender reassignment.
Last Examination: June 2021 - CM/Del/Dec(2021)1406/H46-17
Latest Submission:
OZDIL AND OTHERS v. Republic of Moldova
Violation: Extra-legal transfer of persons to Turkey, circumventing domestic and international law.
Last Examination: November – December 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1419/H46-22
Latest Submission:
M.K. AND OTHERS v. Poland
Violation: Refusal of border guards to receive asylum application and summary removal to a third country with a risk of refoulement to and ill-treatment in the country of origin. Collective expulsion of aliens in a wider state policy of refusing entry to foreigners coming from Belarus. Lack of effective remedy with a suspensive effect. Non-compliance with interim measures under Rule 39.
First Examination
XERO FLOR W POLSCE SP. Z O.O. v. Poland
Violations: Insufficient reasons of courts for refusal to refer a legal question to the Constitutional Court. Tribunal not established by law due to grave irregularities in the election of one of the Constitutional Court's judges examining the applicant company’s constitutional complaint.
First Examination
Latest Submission:
STRĂIN AND OTHERS GROUP & MARIA ATANASIU AND OTHERS v. Romania
Violation: Ineffectiveness of the mechanism put in place to allow the restitution of or compensation for nationalised property.
Last Examination: March 2021- CM/Del/Dec(2021)1398/H46-24
Latest Submissions:
GOMI v. Turkey
Violation: Prohibition of prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment on account of the continued detention of the applicant, who has been suffering from a psychotic illness since 2003.
First Examination
Latest Submissions:
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SELAHATTİN DEMİRTAŞ (No. 2) GROUP v. Turkey
Violation: Unjustified detention of the applicant without reasonable suspicion that they had committed an offence, with the ulterior purpose of stifling pluralism and limiting freedom of political debate (Selahattin Demirtaş (No. 2)); unforeseeable lifting of parliamentary immunity and subsequent criminal proceedings to penalise the applicants for political speech.
Last Examination: March 2022 - CM/Del/Dec(2022)1428/H46-37
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