Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 91
November 2006
Direkçi v. Turkey (dec.) - 47826/99
Decision 3.10.2006 [Section II]
Article 34
Locus standi
Father complaining before the Court about criminal proceedings against his son who had died just after the end of the domestic proceedings: inadmissible
The applicant's son died one month after the end of the criminal proceedings against him. More than four months after his death, his father seized the Court, complaining about the unfairness of the proceedings brought against his son (Article 6) and alleging that his son's criminal conviction had constituted a violation of his son's freedom of peaceful assembly (Article 11).
Inadmissible: Criminal proceedings were initiated against the applicant's son and these proceedings concerned him alone. Therefore the applicant was not personally affected by the alleged unfairness of the proceedings brought against his son or by the allegedly unjustified interference with his son's freedom of peaceful assembly. There exists no general interest in the present case which necessitates proceeding with the consideration of these complaints: incompatibleratione personae.
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