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19 November 2010
39. On 19 November 2010 the President of the First Section granted the applicant’s request for an interim measure and indicated to the Russian Government under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court that they should not extradite the applicant to Uzbekistan until further notice. The Court’s letter of the same date, addressed t...
November 2001
8. By four separate decisions of 28 March 2006, the Ukrainian State Committee on Nationalities and Migration granted the applicants’ requests for refugee status, finding that there were legitimate grounds to fear that the applicants would risk political persecution in Kazakhstan for their activities in 2001-02. In par...
a period of five years
9. The court considered that the aforementioned passages and the article in its entirety constituted propaganda in favour of the PKK. It hence sentenced the applicant to ten months’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay a fine of 375 Turkish liras (TRY). Taking into account his good behaviour during the trial and his ch...
from 3rd July 2003 to 26 February 2005
7. He started serving his sentence in Jilava Prison, where he was detained from 28 February 2001 to 4 March 2002; from 27 April 2002 to 23 January 2003; from 28 January to 3rd July 2003; and from 20 February 2006 to 4 December 2008. He also served a part of his sentence in Giurgiu prison
the week beginning 30 October 2000
26. Furthermore, on 3 November 2000, the trial judge had acknowledged with “admirable candour” when finding that he had jurisdiction to hear the confiscation proceedings outside the six-month time-limit that “no enquiry was made of the (applicants) as to the postponement” when the decision to hold the confiscation hea...
27 January 1988
11. On 10 June 1988 C.Ç. filed an action before the Ayvalık Civil Court of General Jurisdiction against the Forestry Directorate and the Forestry Ministry, objecting to the Forest Cadastral Commission's decision of
16 December 2008
22. The applicant lodged an appeal, arguing that when they had left Australia she had been the child’s sole guardian in law and in practice and, further, that her daughter’s return to Australia would expose the child to psychological harm. In support of the latter point, she submitted a certificate prepared by a psych...
October 2007
38. In the resumed proceedings and at the request of the Bitola Court of First Instance, on 30 March 2013 Dr Z.K. supplemented the expert opinion regarding the applicant’s broken nose, saying that it could not be ruled out that he had suffered it in the traffic accident in
the age of 55
13. It appeared from other medical certificates that the applicant had been healthy until his hip joint problems began in 1985-86. In 1988 his right hip and lower back had been x-rayed, which showed that the hip joint had degenerative alterations, whereas the lower back was not remarked on, having regard to the applic...
22 January 2007
156. On 30 April, 4 and 11 May 2007 the Khmelnytskyy Regional Office of the Prisons Department announced that it had completed its inquiry into the complaints made by the sixth, the second and the third applicants, respectively (introduced on unspecified dates), regarding the events of
26 November 1997
8. On 2 November 1995 the applicant appealed to the Higher Labour and Social Court (Višje delovno in socialno sodišče). SŽ cross-appealed. On 18 September 1997 the court quashed the first instance court’s judgement and remanded the case to the first-instance court for re-examination. The decision was served on the app...
15 March 2007
17. The relevant background facts and domestic law and practice have been summarised in the Court's judgments in the cases of Velikovi and Others v. Bulgaria (nos. 43278/98, 45437/99, 48014/99, 48380/99, 51362/99, 53367/99, 60036/00, 73465/01, and 194/02,
21 April 1999
45. On 20 December 2000 the Minister of the Environment again upheld its decision of 12 July 1999. On 3 February 2001 the applicants appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court, contesting the results of the test performed on
7 January 2000 to 15 February 2000
30. On 24 September 2004 the Bucharest County Court allowed the action and granted the applicant ROL 250,000,000 in respect of non‑pecuniary damage. It held: “The evidence in the file confirms the applicant’s right to compensation under Article 504 of the [Code of Criminal Procedure] for his detention... The applicant...
9 July 1998
25. It was only at that time, on 24 February 1997, that the applicant was given access to her medical file from Dr Heines’s clinic, despite her previous and repeated requests. (a) The judgment of the Bremen Regional Court of
4 October 2000
11. On 25 September 2000 the fifth applicant was successful in a claim before the Town Court against the pension authority. The court granted him RUR 2,318.63 (approximately EUR 97). The judgment came into force on
21 September 1999
39. On 22 March 2001 a prosecutor from the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the appeal without commenting on the applicants’ argument that the police officers involved had not been identified or questioned. He considered that in his decision of
9 June 1998
16. At the hearing of 4 February 2009, the applicants, then represented by lawyer S.D., changed their plea and claimed that they had been pushed to commit the offence by the investigators, who had acted as agents provocateurs. They invoked in their defence the Court’s case-law in relation to police entrapment, namely ...
28 June 1999
33. In reply to the second applicant’s complaint, on 14 March 2005 the Prosecutor’s Office provided the following reply (see also paragraphs 55 and 56 below): “Regarding your complaint about unlawfulness relating to the adoption of Lyubertsy town plan: I inform you that Articles 18, 28, 35, 39, 58 and 60 of the old To...
21 July 2000
48. In a letter of 4 May 2004 the district prosecutor’s office informed Mr Khamzayev that, upon his complaint concerning the bomb strike of 2 October 1999, criminal proceedings in case no. 24031 had been instituted on
2 September 2004
137. 28 October 2004, a written opinion of the uro-oncologist Dr L., Director of the Institute of Urology of the Ministry of Health, obtained upon the request of the applicant's representative: “As regards your request of
31 August 2015
40. The applicant lodged an additional appeal, submitting that although the decision of 6 May 2015 had not yet become enforceable, I. had been able to leave with the children for Germany. That fact had clearly demonstrated that a judicial authorisation was not required for leaving Russia. It had however been used by I...
17 December 1996
20. On 30 June 1998 the Procurator General's Office (Generalprokuratur) lodged a plea of nullity for the preservation of the law (Nichtigkeitsbeschwerde zur Wahrung des Gesetzes) with the Supreme Court. It argued that the coercive indemnity under Section 20 of the Media Act was a coercive measure (Beugemittel). Accord...
23, 23, 25, 26 and 27 June 1997
29. On 15, 16, 17 and 18 April 1997 the court held hearings. The applicant’s requests for release were dismissed at the latter hearing. His subsequent requests were dismissed on 20 April, 19 and 30 May 1997 respectively. On
January 1987
6. On 26 January 1983 the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court convicted the applicant on two counts of murder and sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment. It found that the then nineteen-year-old applicant, acting with full criminal responsibility, had killed the parents of his girl-friend in 1982 by stabbing them twe...
26 January 1998
14. Following the death of Mr Andreas Kannavas on 18 May 1995, the last two applicants were appointed as administrators of his estate and were joined on 19 June 1996 (civil action no. 5949/85) and 11 January 1996 (civil action no. 702/86) as defendants in both sets of proceedings. They are the wife and son of the dece...
4 October 2005
13. On 20 December 2004 a video recording of the applicant's statement in connection with Mr Sarban's arrest was broadcast on television. The applicant stated that the criminal investigation against Mr Sarban had been invented for political purposes and that there had been no lawful reason for initiating it (see Sarba...
5 March 2010
25. After the criminal proceedings were opened, the first applicant was questioned on 27 January and 1 and 9 March 2010. The second applicant was questioned on 5 March and 26 April 2010. On 27 January and
1 January 2002
49. Section 21 originally provided that the prosecutor’s office was to supervise compliance with this Law (paragraph 1). The Department of Health of the Ministry of Welfare and other competent bodies were responsible for monitoring the legality of the use of human tissue and organs (paragraph 2). By virtue of amendmen...
21 March 2008
37. On 24 January 2013 the Bitola Court of Appeal quashed that judgment and remitted the case for fresh examination, which, as noted in the judgment, was to be held before a different panel of first-instance court judges. The court found that the lower court had again not established the facts regarding the applicant’...
22 September 1997
34. On 21 August 1997 the Supreme Court, upon the proposal of the District Court judge to whom the case fell to be examined, transferred the case to the Bratislava I District Court. The latter received the case file on
27 June 2005
29. At the next hearing, held on 7 October 2004, the composition of the court changed, so the trial had to start from the beginning. Subsequently witnesses were heard and on 4 January 2005 the trial court ordered an expert opinon. The expert failed to submit his opinion within the time-limit and on
24 July 2003
18. On 2 February 2006 the investigator G. issued a fourth decision refusing to initiate criminal proceedings. He reiterated the findings of the previous inquiries, concluding, in particular, as follows: “... the evidence collected disproves the [applicant’s] allegations that the investigator K. and [the police office...
28 November 1994
22. By Decree no. 1200 of 1 October 1999, the Georgian President granted the applicant a pardon suspending the remaining two years of his sentence. The relevant provisions of the decree read as follows: “... that [the following] shall be granted a pardon: 1. Tengiz David Assanidze, born in 1944, who was tried for off...
17 July 2013
14. On 26 July 2013 the Basmannyy District Court extended the applicant’s detention until 11 November 2013, having again linked the gravity and nature of the charges against him, as well as his standing in society, to the likelihood that he would obstruct the course of justice, reoffend or abscond. The District Court ...
14 February 2006
30. On 9 June 2009, after receipt of the Kazakhstan Prosecutor General’s Office’s request of 1 June 2009, the district prosecutor’s office issued a second ruling ordering the applicant’s custodial detention as a measure of restraint on the basis of the Almaty City Court’s decision of
19 August 2005
20. As of 17 August 2005 the applicant was placed in the closed ward. Based on her medical records, it appears that she remained talkative but found it somewhat difficult to engage in meaningful discussion. She still exhibited delusions of persecution and was convinced that her father had bribed the doctors and the po...
14 October 2005
28. Following the entry into force of the new Criminal Code on 1 June 2005, which prescribed a less severe sentence under Article 314 § 2 for the offence committed by the applicant, in a decision of
20 December 2005
12. On 5 October 2005 the applicant’s company lodged a request for execution of the above judgment against company L.’s monetary assets, movable and immovable property. The applicant was twice asked to supplement the request with the necessary documents. On
13 November 2007
28. On 15 December 2006 the judge who had been examining the case withdrew from it. On 18 May 2007 the judge who had taken over the case also withdrew from it. Subsequently, all other judges of the Bender District Court withdrew, allegedly for fear of persecution by the “MRT” authorities. As a result, the Bender Court...
16 May 2008
42. The psychiatrist referred to the findings of her expert report (see § 38 above). The relevant part of the letter reads: “The available sources ... indicate a manifest mental illness of the persons concerned which is expressed in psychosis of a paranoid character (relational ideas, ideas of persecution) primarily d...
three years and four months
19. The applicant submitted that after the revocation of the EWK pension her situation had been very difficult. After the revocation of the pension the applicant was unemployed without a right to any benefit for
one year and six months’
25. On 8 November 2005 the first applicant was charged, inter alia, with the unlawful distribution of computer programs, computer games and films. In a final judgment of 22 December 2008 the Supreme Court of Cassation upheld the first applicant’s conviction. It held that the first applicant had lawfully acquired title...
24 March 2005
21. On 13 September 2005 the Ankara Assize Court acquitted the applicant and S.A. of all charges, holding that there was no evidence of force on S.K.’s body, one of the constituent elements of the offences of rape and unlawful detention. The court further held that despite S.K.’s statement of
15 May 2013
36. It appears from the case file that on 15 May 2013 the Nasimi District Court decided to extend the applicant’s detention period for a further three months. The Government did not provide the Court with a copy of the Nasimi District Court’s decision of
Between 3 September 1999 and 11 June 2003
7. On 2 November 1998 the applicant instituted civil proceedings against ZT in the Celje District Court (Okrožno sodišče v Celju) seeking damages in the amount of 3,107,000 tolars (approximately 13,000 euros) for the injuries sustained.
October and November 2003
6. On 16 March 2004 the applicant and three other co-owners lodged a claim against J.M., who occupied the flat, seeking to be paid 3,338 Czech korunas (CZK – 131 euros (EUR)) in respect of the outstanding rent for
17 May 1993
15. On 27 February 1992 the applicant applied for an advance on his military pension under the Ordinance (see paragraph 28 below). On 29 April 1993 he requested the YPA Fund to discontinue the payment of his pension. By a decision of
Two years later
6. In March 2002 the applicant, an officer in the Uzbek Armed Forces, left his military unit in Uzbekistan and went to Russia for employment-related reasons. He settled in the town of Yasnogorsk, in the Tula Region, some thirty kilometres to the north of Tula.
30 June 1995
7. The applicant worked as an officer at a regional branch of the Customs Department (hereafter “the old customs office” of “the Department”), an agency of the Ministry of Finance. Due to the structural reorganisation of the Department on
several days later
124. On 24 February 2004 the investigators questioned Ms T.Z. again. She reiterated that she had seen her husband being abducted from their courtyard by three armed men in camouflage uniforms. The abductors had put him into a white vehicle and had driven away in the direction of Grozny. She stated again that in 2000 h...
18 April 2003
47. On 1 April 2003 the prosecutor’s office of the Chechen Republic forwarded M.D.’s complaint about his nephew’s disappearance to the city prosecutor’s office and ordered that the facts complained of be verified by
10 January 2003
37. On 26 December 2002 the Commission on Human Rights with the President of the Russian Federation transferred a complaint lodged by the first applicant about the abduction of Vakhit Avkhadov to the South Federal Circuit Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The latter notified the first applicant by a lette...
6 April 2001
37. On 29 January 2003 the Voroshylovskyy District Court quashed the above decision and remitted the case materials to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office for further investigation. The court referred to the previous court findings of
16 February 2004
21. The Government submitted that there had been twenty-five to twenty-eight detainees in cell 213 along with the applicant and were unable to provide information in respect of detainees in cell no. 608. They relied on record no. 176 dated
15 March 2003
12. During the proceedings the applicant’s detention was prolonged on several occasions. The last decision was taken on 11 October 2002, when the Katowice Regional Court ordered that he be held in custody until
between January and April 2001
27. In January 2001 the court ordered the parties to make submissions on the question of which landowners were to be considered opposite parties in the appellate proceedings. The Sami villages submitted several comments
about twenty days
23. On 2 September 1999, according to the faxes distributed by the CDGA (messages HRK nos.: 0621-3128-99 et seq.) and the CGP (messages HRK nos.: 0621-879-99 and 880-99), the leftist prisoners demolished the wall of dormitory no. 7 adjacent to their own dormitory, expelled its occupants and took over the premises. Fol...
14 December 2012
8. According to the Government, at 4 p.m. on 12 December 2010 the applicants participated in a group public event in the form of a “picket” (пикетирование) using visual props, namely a banner and a T-shirt. At 4 p.m. the first applicant was taken to the Leninskiy district police station. Between 5.15 p.m. and 6.30 p.m...
17 March 2005
12. On 11 February 2005 the applicant lodged with the Warsaw Regional Court (Sąd Okręgowy) a complaint about a breach of her right to have her case heard within a reasonable time. She relied on the 2004 Act. On
the same day
10. On 21 January 1997 the consultant radiologist informed Dr S. that X-rays revealed evidence of three, possibly four, healing fractures to the right ribs. The first applicant and her partner were informed
the same day
28. On an unspecified date in April 2004 the applicant was transferred by prison bus to the hospital wing of Warszawa-Mokotów Remand Centre, where he underwent a short medical examination in order to assess the state of his health with a view to being granted another licence for temporary release. On
only three months later
44. The applicant's husband, who was travelling in another car, confirmed in an interview that his wife and daughter had been wounded as a result of the explosion near the minibus and that his son Zelimkhan had been killed. They returned to Katyr-Yurt
The next day
43. On 12 February 2008 the Commissario della Legge ordered that an extraordinary hearing of the parties (comparizione delle parti) be held on 19 February 2008. The order was notified on 14 February 2008.
13 to 22 December 2002
10. The applicant was held at the short-term detention facility in Saldus, which was located in a police station, for the following eight periods:  5 June to 5 July 2002;  5 September to 22 November 2002; 
23 May 2005
32. On 30 November 2006 the Vilnius Regional Court dismissed the applicant’s claims. It found that the applicant had been suspected of having committed fraud and arrested for fear that she would flee from justice or commit new crimes. The SBGS officers had jurisdiction in the applicant’s case on the basis of the prose...
27 January 2005
19. On 23 February 2005 the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning (“the Ministry”) granted the first applicant a location for the construction of business premises on plot no. 2090/1036, in accordance with the 2004 DUP. The decision specified that the Urban Technical Conditions of
11 August 2011
21. On that ground the Supreme Court discontinued the disciplinary proceedings against the applicant on 13 May 2011. The applicant challenged that decision by way of an appeal, only to withdraw it on
13 February 1995
7. On 30 January 1995 the Lushnjë District Court recognised the existence of the applicant’s father’s property rights over a plot of land measuring 576 sq. m. situated in the city of Lushnjë (vendim për vërtetim fakti). The decision became binding and final on
21 August 2001
24. Further special procedures governing payment of social benefits to persons who suffered from exposure to radioactive emissions in the Chernobyl disaster were set by Law no. 1244-1 of 15 May 1991 with subsequent amendments and by the Government’s Decrees no. 607 of
about three months
7. During the 1990s the applicant was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (“the LTTE”) and participated in armed resistance against the Sri Lankan Government. In late 2003 he was detained in Colombo for
three years
34. The applicant appealed to the Skierniewice Regional Court against her conviction. On 18 November 1997 the court gave a judgment in which it upheld her conviction but changed the sentence. The applicant’s prison term was lowered to one year suspended for
9 October 2006
11. On 28 November 2003, the applicant lodged an appeal before the Supreme Court against its first-instance judgment. The grounds of appeal had been drafted by the applicant’s representative. On 30 July 2004 the applicant filed his skeleton argument which had also been prepared by his representative. The appeal was se...
23 March 1990
10. By a judgment delivered on 31 May 2000 and filed with the court registry on 12 January 2001, the Naples District Court declared that the possession of the land, which had been initially authorised, had become unlawful as of
31 May 2007
12. By a judgment of 17 July 2008 the Tartu Administrative Court upheld the applicant’s complaint in respect of the Internet site www.coe.ee and ordered Tartu Prison to grant him supervised access to that site via a computer adapted for that purpose. The Administrative Court noted that Tartu Prison had afforded its de...
23 June 2010
28. On 21 July 2010 a panel composed of two forensic experts issued a report concerning the second forensic examination of the applicant. It appears from forensic report no. T76/2010 that the applicant was examined by the forensic experts in the presence of his lawyer on
25 September 1997
7. On 20 May 1997 the applicant instituted civil proceedings against ZT in the Celje District Court (Okrožno sodišče v Celju) seeking damages in the amount of 21,763,835 tolars (approximately 91,000 euros) for the injuries sustained. On
10 December 2003
27. On 25 November 2003 the District Court sentenced the applicant to one year of correctional labour for abuse of power, suspended under the statute of limitation. The applicant did not appeal against this decision, which became final on
14 July 2011
25. On 3 June 2011 and on an unspecified later date the applicant complained to the Warsaw Regional Administrative Court about the Mayor’s failure to give a decision on the case in compliance with the judgment of that court obliging her to do so. On
13 November 1997
39. Under section 2(3) of the Ecclesiastical Law on Religious Music[1] of 15 June 1996, a church musician employed by the Protestant Church must in principle be affiliated with a denomination which is a member of the Protestant Church of Germany or part of an ecclesiastical union therewith. Under section 21(2) of that...
7 April 2008
16. The applicants were furnished with death certificates in respect of their sons, indicating 13 October 2005 as the date of death in respect of both individuals and 23 January 2007 (in respect of Zamir Zalov) and
31 August 2003
7. On 29 August 2003 the applicant attended at the police station for questioning. He explained that he had discovered B.’s body on 25 August 2003 in the yard of his summer cottage. There had been a knife next to the body. According to the applicant, he had panicked, thrown away the knife, put B.’s body into the sidec...
the end of March
37. Several days later the second applicant came to Grozny, alerted by the neighbours. In the cellar of the house he discovered some personal belongings of his brothers – a wristwatch, keys from a flat, a key from a garage and parts of clothes. He also found several bullets from a 5.45-mm calibre automatic rifle and m...
1 October 2012
14. Between 3 October and 27 December 2012 the applicant applied two more times for release to courts at two levels of jurisdiction. Given the serious accusations made against him in the meantime (on
5 April 2005
62. After 1 March 2005, and while the applicant company’s case was being considered by the commercial courts, the President and the Prime Minister made a number of public statements concerning the proceedings. The applicant company submitted different media reports reproducing and/or interpreting those statements. The...
15 March 2001
18. In his application form, which was lodged with the Court by facsimile under cover of an introductory letter dated 29 September 2000, there was a general complaint about the discriminatory nature of the widow’s social security and taxation systems, in standard paragraphs included in all the widowers’ applications s...
16 December 1998
29. On an unknown date the applicant applied for the judgment of the Ploieşti Court of Appeal to be set aside on the ground that the Court of Appeal had denied her access to a tribunal for the determination of her action for recovery of possession. Her application was dismissed on
between 5 and 10 September 1996
15. On 30 July 1997 the Court of Appeal, upon Ms K.'s appeal, quashed the Regional Court's decision of 17 December 1996 and ordered the applicant company to pay a coercive indemnity (Geldbuße) of ATS 24,000 to Ms K., namely ATS 4,000 for each issue of the newspaper
26 June 2009
16. On 20 March 2009 the applicant lodged an appeal. After it had informed the applicant that her appeal was inadmissible, because it had not been filed by a lawyer, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal on
20 July 2009
8. Relying on section 55(3), the applicants’ lawyer then requested their release. However, since the refugee authority had not initiated their release, the request was denied by the alien administration authority. On
18 May 2004
8. The applicant further challenged the lawfulness of the search carried out at his flat. On 14 February 2004 the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don held that the search had been carried out in compliance with the domestic law. The applicant alleged that he had not been informed of the above decision until
May and October 1993
8. On 1 June 1992 he lodged an application for gun licences (waffenrechtliche Erlaubnis) with the county of Querfurt (Saxony-Anhalt), which was granted. Subsequent requests for a renewal of these licences in
between 28 May 2001 and 18 September 2003
9. In the re-examination proceedings, between 28 March and 3 December 2001, the applicant filed three written submissions. The court appointed a new expert to asses the damage. Of the three hearings held
2 November 2005
8. Meanwhile, on 19 September 2005, Ms K.O. filed a criminal complaint against the applicant with the French authorities, alleging that he had sexually abused their child. She further requested the suspension of the applicant’s custody and access rights. However, in the absence of any evidence supporting her allegatio...
29 June 2005
9. In a letter of 30 June 2005 sent to the first applicant’s former address in Bulgaria, the head of the complaints department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs informed him that the Minister had dismissed the appeal in a decision of
13 July 2015
13. On 28 May 2015 the Constitutional Court found a violation of the first applicant’s right to a hearing within a reasonable time. It further awarded him 500 euros (EUR) as just satisfaction for non-pecuniary damage. The Constitutional Court dismissed the first applicant’s complaint concerning his right to the peacef...
31 December 1997
45. In 1998, and then again in 2002, Serbia agreed to repay, partly in cash and partly in government bonds, “old” foreign-currency savings in domestic branches of domestic banks of its citizens and of citizens of all States other than the successor States of the SFRY together with “old” foreign-currency savings in for...
19 December 2006
34. On 28 February 2007 the Bytom Police refused to open an inquiry into the same allegations made by the applicant. Based on the testimonies of the applicant and the doctor concerned, it was found that the applicant had received sufficient medical attention after the accident of
13 July 2001
29. On 3 August and 27 November 2001 the Investigation Division of the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the orders issued by the Paris investigating judge on 27 April (concerning the attack of 25 July 1995) and
23 December 1996
10. The question of when the decision of 28 November 1996 became final and binding (právoplatnosť) was not subject to full administrative or judicial examination. However, the authorities took the view that it had become final and binding on