Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)117
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Halil Adem Hasan against Bulgaria
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 13 June 2024
at the 1501st meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
4374/05
HALIL ADEM HASAN
10/03/2015
10/06/2015
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 final judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violation established on account of the regime and conditions of the applicant’s detention, the lack of an effective domestic remedy in respect of the regime and conditions of the applicant’s detention and the monitoring of the applicant’s correspondence in prison until 2009 (violations of Articles 3, 8 and 13);
Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:
- of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
- of general measures preventing similar violations;
Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;
Having examined the information provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see documents DH-DD(2023)1442 and DH-DD(2021)698-rev);
Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that:
- the applicant now has access to sanitary facility, his regime is regularly assessed, he is offered more out-of-cell activities and he has not used the available remedies to request an improvement of his material conditions of detention or regime;
- monitoring of the applicant’s correspondence was already resolved before the European Court’s judgment became final;
- the seizure of the just satisfaction awarded for moral damages aimed at the payment of debt to private persons, which was not related to the violations found by the Court, and that the small amount seized for court fees in the enforcement proceedings was not a typical debt to the State, since it cannot be dissociated from the choice of private persons to enforce their own rights;
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in this judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the Kehayov and the Harakchiev and Tolumov cases also in the light of the Court’s findings in this case, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures;
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case;
CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures in the context of the Kehayov and Harakchiev and Tolumov cases;
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.