Over 6% of ECHR cases in waiting are complaints coming from Romania

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued last year 1,014 decisions, 13% fewer than in 2022, while 68,450 case were waiting, compared to 74,650 at the end of 2022, said Siofra O'Leary, ECHR president, according to EFE agency.

Speaking in Strasbourg at a press conference on last year's balance sheet, Siofra O'Leary pointed out that complaints coming from 6 countries represent 75% of cases in waiting – Turkey (34.2%), Russia (18.2%), Ukraine (12.8%), Romania (6.1%) and Italy (4%).

In the case of Turkey, 96% of the 23,400 complaints concern consequences of the 2016 coup against president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Russia was excluded from the Council of Europe in March 2022, after launching the invasion against Ukraine, therefore it no longer cooperates with ECHR. The treatu of this organization stipulates that a country which leaves the Council of Europe must continue to apply ECHR decisions made in 6 months after the said country ceased being a member. So in Russia's case ECHR remains competent for cases of human rights infringements announced before September 2022.

Developed by Codecraftsman