Overview of Rule 9 Submissions in view of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies Human Rights Meeting in June 2025
/From the 10th to the 12th of June 2025, the Committee of Ministers is meeting for their quarterly Human Rights Meeting. During the meeting, the Committee of Ministers will examine 66 leading judgments of the European Court of Human Rights that are pending implementation.
EIN members and partners, other civil society actors, lawyers and applicants have made 38 Rule 9 submissions in 36 leading cases under consideration. The list below sets out an overview of these submissions related to cases on the current agenda.
Overview of Submissions
Mushegh Saghatelyan v. Armenia group
Violation: Ill-treatment by the police and absence of any official investigation; unlawful arrest and detention; disproportionate and unnecessary dispersal of protests.
Latest Examination: September 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1475/H46-3
Gafgaz Mammadov v. Azerbaijan group
Violation: Dispersals of demonstrations and arrests of demonstrators.
Latest Examination: March 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1492/H46-2
Makuchyan and Minasyan v. Azerbaijan group
Violation: Failure to continue to enforce prison sentence for ethnic hate crime committed abroad, after transfer to Azerbaijan.
Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1514/H46-6
Namazov v. Azerbaijan group
Violation: Lack of procedural safeguards in disciplinary proceedings, having led to the applicants’ disbarment for breach of professional ethics following verbal altercations with a judge.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-5
Violation: Impossibility for persons displaced during the active military phase (1992-1994) of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to gain access to their homes and properties in the region; lack of effective remedies.
Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1514/H46-10
Latest Submission(s): 1531st meeting (June 2025) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (18/03/2025) in the case of SARGSYAN v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 40167/06) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2025)323]
Koilova and Babulkova v. Bulgaria
Violation: Lack of a specific legal framework providing for the recognition and protection of the applicants' union as persons of the same sex.
Latest Examination: First examination
Miroslava Todorova v. Bulgaria
Violation: Disciplinary proceedings and sanctions against the President of the judges’ association in retaliation against her criticism of the Supreme Judicial Council and the executive.
Latest Examination: June 2024 -CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-9
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.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-10
Violation: Lack of effective investigation into the death of the applicants’ daughter at the Croatian border; inadequate conditions of detention of migrant children; lack of administrative and court diligence and expedition concerning asylum seeking applicants’ detention and asylum proceedings; collective expulsion; violation of the right of individual application.
Latest Examination: September 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1475/H46-14
Violation: Poor conditions of detention (overcrowding) and lack of an effective preventive remedy.
Latest Examination: March 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1492/H46-13
Violation: Detention and expeditive return of two foreign unaccompanied minors from Mayotte to the Comoros, without an examination of their individual situation and without an effective remedy.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-12
Tsintsabadze v. Georgia group
Violation: Lack of effective investigations into allegations of ill-treatment or violations of the right to life; excessive use of force by the police in the course of arrest and/or while detaining suspects.
Latest Examination: March 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1492/H46-14
Bekir-Ousta and Others v. Greece group
Violation: Refusal of domestic courts to register associations or dissolution of the applicants’ associations.
Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1514/H46-17
M.S.S. v. Greece group & H.A. and Others v. Greece group
Violation: Conditions of detention of asylum seekers and irregular migrants and lack of an effective remedy to challenge conditions of detention; living conditions of asylum seekers; ineffective remedies against expulsion due to shortcomings in asylum procedure.
Latest Examination: Respectively, September 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1475/H46-15 & First examination
László Magyar v. Hungary group
Violation: Life sentence without parole in combination with the lack of an adequate review mechanism, life sentence with parole after 40 years.
Latest Examination: September 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1507/H46-12
Szabó and Vissy v. Hungary group
Violation: Absence of sufficient guarantees against abuse in legislation on secret surveillance.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-17
Talpis v. Italy group
Violation: Failure to comply with the positive obligation to properly assess the risk to life in domestic violence cases and to secure a timely and adequate response. Sexism in the perception of the phenomenon of violence against women, including in court decisions, leading to secondary victimisation. Impunity for domestic violence acts due to a combination of judicial passivity and intervening changes to the prescription regime.
Latest Examination: September 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1475/H46-19
Violation: Poor conditions of detention on remand in Sint Maarten (Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) pending extradition proceedings.
Latest Examination: December 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1483/H46-21
Przybyszewska and Others v. Poland
Violation: Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for the same-sex couples.
Latest Examination: First examination
Centre for Legal Resources on behalf of Valentin Câmpeanu v. Romania & N. (No. 2) v. Romania
Violation: Deficiencies in the legal protection and medical and social care afforded to vulnerable persons.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-25
Parascineti v. Romania, Cristian Teodorescu v. Romania group, N. v. Romania & R.D. and I.M.D. v. Romania
Violation: Overcrowding and inadequate living conditions, treatment and care afforded to patients in psychiatric establishments; unlawful or arbitrary involuntary psychiatric placements and insufficient safeguards against such deprivations of liberty; systematic failure to seek consent to psychiatric treatment and absence of minimum legal safeguards attending the forcible administration of psychiatric treatment to involuntary patients.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-26
Străin and Others v. Romania group & Văleanu and Others v. Romania
Violation: Ineffectiveness of the mechanism put in place to allow the restitution of or compensation for nationalised property. Continuing ineffectiveness of this restitution mechanism.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-27
Roman Zakharov v. Russia group, Podchasov v. Russia, Smirnov v. Russia group & Urukov v. Russia group
Violation: Operative search activities groups
Latest Examination: September 2018 - CM/Del/Dec(2018)1324/H46-19 (Roman Zakharov) & First examination (Podchasov, Smirnov, and Urukov)
Violation: Unjustified and extended detention of the applicant without reasonable suspicion and with the ulterior purpose of reducing him to silence (individual measures).
Latest Examination: March 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1521/H46-32
Latest Submission(s): 1531st meeting (June 2025) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (10/06/2025) in the case of Kavala v. Türkiye (Application No. 28749/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2025)673]
Oya Ataman v. Türkiye group
Violation: Violation of the right to freedom of assembly, ill treatment of applicants as a result of excessive force used during demonstrations.
Latest Examination: March 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1459/H46-29
Violation: Conviction for membership of an armed terrorist organisation, without establishing offence’s constituent material and mental elements in an individualised manner.
Latest Examination: First examination
Violation: Continuous denial of access to property in the northern part of Cyprus (individual measures and just satisfaction).
Latest Examination: September 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1507/H46-38