Overview of Rule 9 Submissions in view of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies Human Rights Meeting in June 2026
/From the 9th to the 11th of June 2026, the Committee of Ministers is meeting for their second quarterly Human Rights Meeting of 2026. During the meeting, the Committee of Ministers will examine 65 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 49 Rule 9 submissions in 37 leading cases under consideration. The list below sets out an overview of these submissions related to cases on the agenda.
Overview of Submissions
Violation: Inadequate medical care in detention.
Latest Examination: June 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-2
Violation: Various violations of the Convention on account of the disciplinary proceedings against the applicants, former advocates, which resulted in their disbarment, in breach of Articles 6, 8 and 10 of the Convention.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-7
Violation: Arrest and pre-trial detention to punish the applicants for their electoral monitoring activities or active social and political engagements in breach of Article 18 taken in conjunction with Article 5.
Latest Examination: March 2026 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1553/H46-4
Latest Submission(s): 1563rd meeting (June 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (28/04/2026) in the case of Mammadli v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 47145/14) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)586]
Violation: Structural problem concerning prison overcrowding, material conditions of detention and lack of an effective preventive remedy.
Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1514/H46-12
SEJDIC AND FINCI group v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Violation: Ethnic-based discrimination on account of the ineligibility of persons not affiliated with one of the “constituent peoples” (Bosniaks, Croats or Serbs) to stand for election to the House of Peoples and the Presidency.
Latest Examination: March 2026 - CM/Del/Dec(2026)1553/H46-10
MIROSLAVA TODOROVA v. Bulgaria
Violation: Disciplinary proceedings and sanctions against the President of the judges’ association in retaliation for her criticism of the Supreme Judicial Council and the executive.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-12
UNITED MACEDONIAN ORGANISATION ILINDEN AND OTHERS group v. Bulgaria
Violation: Unjustified refusals by the courts to register an association aiming at achieving “the recognition of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria”.
Latest Examination: December 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1545/A1
Violation: Poor conditions of detention (overcrowding) and lack of an effective preventive remedy.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-16
MAKARASHVILI AND OTHERS group v. Georgia
Violation: Violations of the rights to freedom of assembly and fair trial on account of administrative convictions in the context of demonstrations, and violation of the right to liberty and security on account of arbitrary administrative arrest and detention.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-45
BEKIR-OUSTA AND OTHERS group v. Greece
Violation: Refusal of domestic courts to register associations or dissolution of the applicants’ associations.
Latest Examination: December 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1545/H46-18
Violation: Lack of access to a court as regards the premature termination of the applicant’s mandate as President of the Supreme Court which also led to a violation of his right to freedom of expression.
Latest Examination: March 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1521/H46-15
Violation: Non-enforcement of a court order granting the applicant unrestricted access to certain documents and lack of an effective remedy in this respect.
Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1514/H46-41
LASZLO MAGYAR group v. Hungary
Violation: Life sentence without parole in combination with the lack of an adequate review mechanism, life sentence with parole only after having served between 25 years and 6 months and 48 years and one month of the sentence.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-21
SZABO AND VISSY group v. Hungary
Violation: Absence of sufficient guarantees against abuse in legislation on secret surveillance as well as to challenge the alleged use of secret surveillance with a view to revealing journalist sources.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-22
Violation: Ill-treatment during confinement in a psychiatric hospital and failure to conduct effective investigations.
Latest Examination: First examination
T.M. AND C.M. group v. the Republic of Moldova
Violation: Authorities' failure to provide protection from domestic violence.
Latest Examination: September 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1507/H46-18
XERO FLOR W POLSCE SP. Z O.O. v. Poland
Violation: 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.
Latest Examination: September 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1537/H46-27
RECZKOWICZ group, BRODA AND BOJARA, GRZĘDA, WALESA, & PAJĄK AND OTHERS v. Poland
Violation: Tribunal not established by law due to, inter alia, systemic dysfunction in the judicial appointments’ procedures.
Latest Examination: September 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1537/H46-26
Violation: Overcrowding and poor conditions of detention in prisons and lack of effective remedies.
Latest Examination: September 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1507/H46-23
CENTRE FOR LEGAL RESOURCES ON BEHALF OF VALENTIN CAMPEANU, PARASCINETI, CRISTIAN TEODORESCU group & N. group v. Romania
Violation: Serious and longstanding deficiencies affecting the rights of patients placed in mental healthcare establishments, including overcrowding, poor living conditions, inadequate care, ineffective response of the criminal justice system to violations of their right to life and protection from ill-treatment, unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, and gaps in the procedures and safeguards for involuntary placements and psychiatric treatment.
Latest Examination: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-31
UKRAINE AND THE NETHERLANDS v. Russia
Violation: Multiple, flagrant and unprecedented Convention violations in Ukraine resulting from the downing of flight MH17 and numerous administrative practices by Russia in occupied territories/ territories under “effective control” of the Russian forces and their proxies (abduction and transfer to Russia of Ukrainian children).
Latest Examination: December 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1545/H46-34
Violation: Torture or inhuman/degrading treatment in police custody to extract confessions and lack of effective investigations; arbitrary and/or unacknowledged arrest and detention in police custody. Use of confessions obtained in breach of Article 3 in criminal proceedings and lack of effective remedy to claim compensation for ill-treatment.
Latest Examination: November-December 2021 - CM/Del/Dec(2021)1419/H46-33
XENIDES-ARESTIS group v. Turkey
Violation: Continuous denial of access to property in the northern part of Cyprus (individual measures and just satisfaction).
Latest Examination: December 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1545/H46-40
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 2026 - CM/Del/Dec(2026)1553/H46-37
Latest Submission(s): 1563rd meeting (June 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.1 - Communication from the applicant (21/05/2026) in the case of Kavala v. Türkiye (Application No. 28749/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)672]
ALPARSLAN ALTAN group, AKGÜN group, & NEDIM SENER group v. Turkey
Violation: Unjustified detention of the applicants without reasonable suspicion, including through extensive interpretation of the concept of in flagrante delicto in the Alparslan Altan group, and mainly for non-violent expressions of opinions or actions in the Nedim Şener group.
Latest Examination: September 2023 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1475/H46-35
KAVERZIN group & AFANASYEV group & BELOUSOV group v. Ukraine
Violation: Ill-treatment / torture by police and lack of effective investigation.
Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1514/H46-39