Resolution CM/ResDH(2011)271[1]
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
2 cases against Turkey concerning the applicants’ continued detention
during the hours after following the release order
(Değerli, Application No. 18242/02, judgment of 05/02/2008, final on 05/05/2008
Özdemir, Application No. 21007/04, judgment of 18/11/2008, final on 18/02/2009)
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 the applicants’ continued detention during the hours after following the release order (violations of Article 5, paragraph 1) (see details in Appendix);
Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken in order to comply with its obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgments;
Having examined the information provided by the government in accordance with the Committee’s Rules for the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention;
Having satisfied itself that within the time-limit set the respondent state paid the just satisfaction provided in the Değerli judgment (see details in Appendix),
Recalling that a finding of violations by the Court requires, over and above the payment of just satisfaction awarded in the judgments, the adoption by the respondent state, where appropriate, of
- individual measures to put an end to the violations and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
- general measures preventing, similar violations;
Having examined the measures taken by the respondent state to that effect, the details of which appear in Appendix;
DECLARES, having examined the measures taken by the respondent state (see Appendix), that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases and
DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.
Appendix to Resolution ResDH(2011)271
Information about the measures to comply with 2 cases against Turkey
concerning the applicants’ continued detention during the hours
after following the release order
Introductory case summary
The cases concern the applicants’ continued detention (pending trial in the Değerli case, and police custody in the Özdemir case) during the hours following the release order (violations of Article 5§1).
The applicants were released only after a delay ranging between 18 hours and 50 minutes to 23 hours and 35 minutes.
I.Payment of just satisfaction and individual measures
a) Details of just satisfaction
Name and application number
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
Değerli (18242/02)
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4000 EUR
1500 EUR
5500 EUR
Paid on 09/07/2008
Özdemir (21007/04)
No just satisfaction awarded.
b) Individual measures
The applicants were released. Consequently, no other individual measure was considered necessary by the Committee of Ministers.
II.General measures
The European Court’s judgments were translated into Turkish, sent out to the relevant authorities and published on the official web site of the Turkish Ministry of Justice (). The Turkish authorities considered that the problem revealed by these judgments was an isolated one and that the publication and dissemination of the Court’s judgment would therefore be sufficient to prevent similar violations in the future.
It is also recalled that following the constitutional and legislative reforms, the provisions related to police custody were brought into conformity with the requirements of Article 5 of the Convention (see Sakık and others (Final Resolution ResDH(2002)110) and Ayaz and others (Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2008)29).
III.Conclusions of the respondent state
The government considers that no individual measure is required apart from the payment of the just satisfaction, that the general measures adopted will prevent similar violations and that Turkey has thus complied with its obligations under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention.
[1] Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 2 December 2011 at the 1128th Meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies
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