8 cases against Turkey - 50693/99

cases against Turkey concerning freedom of expression in state of emergency region

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”);

Having regard to the judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee once they had become final;

Recalling that the violations of the Convention found by the Court in these cases concern in particular unjustified interference in the applicants’ freedom of expression due to bans imposed under article 11 e) of Law No. 2935 on the state of emergency, concerning the introduction and/or publication and/or distribution of newspapers or political posters, and absence of a judicial remedy to challenge the orders of the governor of the region of state of emergency (Violations of Articles 10 and 13) (see details in Appendix).

Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with its obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgments;