Overview of Rule 9 Submissions in view of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies Human Rights Meeting June 2022

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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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (07/06/2022) in the case of Khadija Ismayilova v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 65286/13) [Anglais uniquement] (Public)

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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (06/05/2022) in the case of Yunusova and Yunusov (No. 2) v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 68817/14) (Mammadli group, 47145/14) [Anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)511]

 1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (06/05/2022) in the case of Aliyev v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 68762/14) (Mammadli group, 47145/14) [Anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)510]

 1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Election Monitoring and Democratic Studies Centre) (24/02/2022) in the Mammadli group of cases v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 47145/14) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)310]

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:

 1436e réunion (juin 2022) (DH) - Règle 9.2 - Communication d’une INDH (Conseil Central de Surveillance Pénitentiaire) (28/04/2022) relative à l'affaire VASILESCU c. Belgique (requête n° 64682/12) [French only] [DH-DD(2022)517]

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:

 1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Bulgarian Helsinki Committee) (19/04/2022) in the cases of KOLEVI and S.Z. v. Bulgaria (Applications No. 1108/02, 29263/12) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)466] 

STANEV v. Bulgaria

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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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (Validity Foundation - Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, KERA Foundation, Network of Independent Experts, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights) (02/05/2022) in the case of STANEV v. Bulgaria (Application No. 36760/06) & reply from the authorities (12/05/2022) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)531]

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rules 9.2 and 9.6 - Communication from NGOs (Validity Foundation Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, KERA Foundation, Network of Independent Experts, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee & Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights) (25/04/2022) in the case of STANEV v. Bulgaria (Application No. 36760/06) & reply from the authorities (04/05/2022) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)495-rev]

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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Greek Helsinki Monitor) (19/04/2022) in the case of BEKIR-OUSTA AND OTHERS v. Greece (Application No. 35151/05) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)481]

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe) (04/03/2022) in the case of BEKIR-OUSTA AND OTHERS v. Greece (Application No. 35151/05) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)323]

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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (StraLi for Strategic Litigation) (19/04/2022) in the case of Cordella and Others v. Italy (Application No. 54414/13) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)468]


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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (StraLi for Strategic Litigation) (22/04/2022) in the case of DI SARNO AND OTHERS v. Italy (Application No. 30765/08) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)494]

 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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rules 9.2 and 9.6 - Communication from NGOs (TGEU-Transgender Europe (TGEU), Lithuanian trans rights and mutual support association “Trans Autonomija” (Trans Autonomija), the National LGBTI rights organization LGL (LGL), Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI), and ILGA Europe) (19/04/2022) in the case of L. v. Lithuania (Application No. 27527/03) and reply from the authorities (27/04/2022) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)473] 

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:

 1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (Legal Resources Centre from Moldova and Promo-LEX Association) (20/04/2022) in the case of Ozdil and Others v. the Republic of Moldova (Application No. 42305/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)477]

 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 

Latest Submissions:
1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights) (22/04/2022) in the case of M.K. and Others v. Poland (Application No. 40503/17) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)492] 

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (19/04/2022) in the case of M.K. and Others v. Poland (Application No. 40503/17) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)471]

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (AIRE Centre + ECRE) (01/04/2022) in the case of M.K. and Others v. Poland (Application No. 40503/17) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)421]

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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (30/03/2022) in the case of Xero Flor w Polsce sp. z o.o. v. Poland (Application No. 4907/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)411]

 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:

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (06/05/2022) in the case of Ana Ionescu and Others v. Romania (Application No. 19788/03) (Strain group, 57001/00) [Anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)509]

1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (28/04/2022) in the case of Dimitrie Dan Popescu and Others v. Romania (Application No. 39480/03) (Strain group, 57001/00) [Anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)478]

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:

Recent submission to be uploaded

Rule 9.1 Communication from the applicant (24/02/2020) in the case of Gomi v. Turkey (Application No. 38704/11)

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 

 Latest Submissions:

 1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (13/04/2022) in the case of Encu and Others v. Turkey (Application No. 56543/16) (Selahattin Demirtas (no. 2) group, 14305/17) [Anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)425]

 1436th meeting (June 2022) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (13/04/2022) in the case of Selahattin Demirtas v. Turkey (no. 2) (Application No. 14305/17) [Anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2022)424]