Overview of Rule 9 Submissions in view of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies Human Rights Meeting in March 2026

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From the 9th to the 11th of March 2026, the Committee of Ministers is meeting for their first quarterly Human Rights Meeting of 2026. During the meeting, the Committee of Ministers will examine 59 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 51 Rule 9 submissions in 44 leading cases under consideration. The list below sets out an overview of these submissions related to cases on the agenda.

 

Overview of Submissions 

 

Strazimiri v. Albania 

Violation: Poor conditions of detention and inadequate medical treatment of a mentally ill person subject to a court-ordered compulsory medical treatment; unlawful detention in an inadequate (penitentiary) institution without proper psychiatric treatment; failure to examine speedily the lawfulness of the applicant's detention; absence of right to compensation. 

Latest Examination: March 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1521/H46-2 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Albanian Helsinki Committee) (29/01/2026) in the case of Strazimiri v. Albania (Application No. 34602/16) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)223]

 

Chiragov and Others v. Armenia

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: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-2 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rules 9.2 and 9.6 - Communication from an NGO (Democratic Progress Institute) (19/01/2026) in the case of Chiragov and Others v. Armenia (Application No. 13216/05) and reply from the authorities (28/01/2026) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)154-rev] 

 
 
 
 
 

Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina group 

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: December 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1545/H46-9 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Minority Rights Group International (MRG)) (27/01/2026) in the Sejdic and Finci group of cases v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Application No. 27996/06) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)198] 

 
 
 
 

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: June 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1531/H46-18 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (Social Justice Centre, Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, and European Human Rights Advocacy Centre) (23/01/2026) in the Tsintsabadze group of cases v. Georgia (Application No. 35403/06) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)179] 

 

H.F. and Others v. France

Violation: Violation of the right to enter the State of which a person is a national, due to the absence of appropriate safeguards against arbitrariness in the examination of requests to repatriate French children held since 2019 in the camps in north-eastern Syria. 

Latest Examination: March 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2024)1492/H46-12 

Latest Submission: 1553e réunion (mars 2026) (DH) - Règles 9.2 et 9.6 - Communication d'une ONG (Avocats Sans Frontières France) (19/01/2026) dans l’affaire H.F. et autres c. France (requête n° 24384/19) et réponse des autorités (30/01/2026) [French only] [DH-DD(2026)152-rev] 

 
 
 

Gubacsi v. Hungary group 

Violation: Inhuman and degrading treatment by law enforcement officers and/or the lack of adequate investigations in this respect. 

Latest Examination: December 2024 - CM/Del/Dec(2023)1483/H46-19 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Hungarian Helsinki Committee) (220/01/2026) in the group of cases Gubacsi v. Hungary (Application No. 44686/07) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)168] 

 
 

J.A. and Others v. Italy group 

Violation: Unlawful detention of migrants at Lampedusa “hotspot” in poor conditions and collective expulsion from Italy; ill treatment during the applicant’s arrest and poor material conditions during the arrest and transfer; lack of effective remedies to complain about poor living conditions. 

Latest Examination: June 2024 CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-18 | First examination 

Latest Submissions: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) and the Association Maldusa) (19/01/2026) in the group of cases J.A. and Others v. Italy (Application No. 21329/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)169] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Altro Diritto ODV) (19/01/2026) in the group of cases J.A. and Others v. Italy (Application No. 21329/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)137] 

 

Tysiąc v. Poland, R.R. v. Poland, P. and S. v. Poland & M.L. v. Poland 

Violation: Absence of an adequate legal framework for the exercise of the right to therapeutic abortion in the event of disagreement between the patient and the specialist doctor (Tysiac) and lack of access to prenatal test enabling to take an informed decision on whether to seek an abortion (R.R.). 

Failure to provide effective access to reliable information on the conditions and procedures to be followed to access lawful abortion lawful abortion (P. and S.). 

Impossibility to perform lawful abortion in Poland due to foetal abnormalities in consequence of a Constitutional Court’s judgment of October 2020, adopted in a composition not complying with the rule of law requirements and in circumstances disclosing the lack of foreseeability (M.L.) 

Latest Examination: March 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1521/H46-24 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (Foundation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA) and Center for Reproductive Rights) (26/01/2026) in the cases of R.R., M.L., Tysiac and P. and S. v. Poland (Applications No. 27617/04, 40119/21, 5410/03, 57375/08) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)197] 

 
 

Bălşan v. Romania group 

Violation: Failure of the investigating, prosecuting and judicial authorities to comply with their positive obligation under Article 3 to protect the applicants from acts of domestic violence; failure to discharge the positive obligations under Article 8. 

Failure to protect the applicant’s personal integrity due to significant flaws in the criminal investigation concerning alleged sexual harassment at the workplace. 

Latest Examination: March 2025 - CM/Del/Dec(2025)1521/H46-25 | CM/Del/Dec(2025)1521/H46-26 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from NGOs (FILIA Center for Curriculum Development and Gender Studies and the Romanian Group for Defending Human Rights (GRADO)) (19/01/2026) in the Balsan group of cases v. Romania (Application No. 49645/09) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)160]

 
 

Avagyan v. Russia, Gadzhiyev and Gostev v. Russia, Google LLC and Others v. Russia, Milashina and Others v. Russia, Novaya Gazeta and Others v. Russia & Suprun and Others v. Russia 

Violation: Violation of freedom of expression on multiple grounds 

Latest Examination: First examination 

Latest Submissions: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.3 - Communication from an IGO (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation) (09/02/2026) in the cases of Novaya Gazeta and Others, Avagyan, Google LLC and Others, Andrey Rylkov Foundation and Others, Suprun and Others, Gadzhiyev and Gostev and Milashina and Others v. Russia (Applications No. 11884/22, 36911/20, 37027/22, 37949/18, 58029/12, 73585/14, 75000/17) (Novaya Gazeta and Others group) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)264] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre) (30/01/2026) in the cases of Novaya Gazeta and Others, Google LLC and Others and Suprun and Others v. Russia (Novaya Gazeta and Others group) (Applications No. 11884/22, 37027/22, 58029/12) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)230] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (European Human Rights Advocacy Centre) (02/02/2026) in the cases of Milashina & Others and Andrey Rylkov Foundation & Others v. Russia (Applications No. 75000/17, 37949/18) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)231] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Centre de la protection internationale) (06/02/2026) in the Novaya Gazeta and Others group of cases v. Russia (Application No. 11884/22) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)241] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre) (06/02/2026) in the Novaya Gazeta and Others group of cases v. Russia (Application No. 11884/22) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)240] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre) (30/01/2026) in the cases of Novaya Gazeta and Others, Google LLC and Others and Suprun and Others v. Russia (Novaya Gazeta and Others group) (Applications No. 11884/22, 37027/22, 58029/12) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)230] 

1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rule 9.2 - Communication from an NGO (European Human Rights Advocacy Centre) (29/01/2026) in the Novaya Gazeta and Others group of cases v. Russia (Application No. 11884/22) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)229] 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Naydyon v. Ukraine group 

Violation: Lack of a clear procedure allowing prisoners access to documents necessary to substantiate their complaints to the Court. 

Latest Examination: June 2019 - CM/Del/Dec(2019)1348/H46-34 

Latest Submission: 1553rd meeting (March 2026) (DH) - Rules 9.2 and 9.6 - Communication from NGOs (22/01/2026) concerning the Naydyon group of cases v. Ukraine (Application No. 16474/03) and reply from the authorities (02/02/2026) [anglais uniquement] [DH-DD(2026)185]