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Grand Chamber
Grand Chamber judgments
07/02/2012
The Court delivered its Grand Chamber judgments in the cases of
Axel Springer AG v. Germany and Von Hannover v. Germany (no. 2). The Court held that there had been a violation of the Convention in the case Axel Springer AG, and no violation of the Convention in the case Von Hannover (no. 2). Both cases concerned the publication in the media of articles and, in the second case, of photos depicting the private life of well-known people.
Press Release (German version)
Hearing of 13/10/2010
Relinquishment of jurisdiction to the Grand Chamber
06/02/2012
The Chamber dealing with the case of El-Masri v. "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
has relinquished it to the Grand Chamber. The applicant in this case, a German national of Lebanese origin, complains that he was arrested and tortured in Skopje, because he was suspected of belonging to a terrorist organisation, and that he was handed over to the CIA which had kept him in a secret detention centre in Afghanistan.
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Cases pending before the Grand Chamber
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Opening of the judicial year
27/01/2012
The Court's judicial year was formally opened on Friday 27 January 2012. Some 200 leading judicial figures from across Europe were invited to participate in a seminar on the topic “How to ensure greater involvement of national courts in the Convention system?”.
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Video on admissibility
27/01/2012
 The
Court launched a short video in English and French on the criteria for admissibility, produced with the support of the Principality of Monaco (see video).
The video, which is approximately three minutes long, is aimed at the general public and sets out the main conditions required in order to apply to the Court; failure to satisfy these conditions is the reason why the vast majority of applications are rejected.
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See video
Hearings
Recent hearing
25/01/2012
The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case of Catan and Others v. Republic of Moldova and Russia. The case concerns complaints about the
prohibition to use Latin script in schools in the self-proclaimed unrecognised entity known as “Moldovan Republic of Transdnistria”.
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Webcast of the hearing
Calendar of hearings
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Chamber judgment
Chamber judgment
09/02/2012
In the case of Vejdeland and Others v. Sweden, the Court found that the applicants' conviction for distributing leaflets insulting homosexuals did not breach the right to freedom of expression. In conjunction with this judgment a new factsheet on "hate speech" has been published.
Press Release
 Factsheet on "hate speech"
Factsheet on "sexual
orientation"
02/02/2012
In the case of I.M. v. France, the Court held that there had been a violation of the Convention. The case concerned the risks the applicant would face in the event of his deportation to Sudan and the effectiveness of the remedies available to him in France in view of the fact that his asylum application was dealt with under the fast-track procedure.
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Decisions
Inadmissibility decision
07/02/2012
The Court Court has declared the application inadmissible in the case of
Seckerson and The Times Newspapers Limited v. the United Kingdom. The case concerned sanctions imposed on a juror and a publishing company because of their disclosures about a jury's deliberations.
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