Press
Press Service
We aim to help media professionals with questions about the work of the Court in general, to provide information which is publicly available about cases, and guide you in the use of our database of previous cases and those which have been notified to Governments.
Press officers are available to brief journalists by email or by phone.
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We aim to help media professionals with questions about the work of the Court in general, to provide information which is publicly available about cases, and guide you in the use of our database of previous cases and those which have been notified to Governments.
Press releases
All press releases issued by the Registry since 1 January 1999 are available in the HUDOC database.
Press releases are available in both English and French. Some press releases for high-profile cases are translated into non-official languages.
Press releases on Chamber judgments are generally published at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Both Chamber and Grand Chamber judgments are announced in press releases about a week in advance with a short summary of the cases concerned. Upcoming hearings are announced in a press release at the end of the preceding month.
To receive press releases
You can receive the Court’s press releases systematically:
- by following the Court on Bluesky
- by following the Court on X
- by subscribing to RSS feeds ('Press releases')
- by subscribing to its mailing list
Q&A and Focus On
The Court regularly produces Q&As on how different procedures of the Court’s work, on themes in the case-law, and explaining particular cases.
Q&A Cases
- Ali Samatar and Others v. France and Hasan and Others v. France* (apprehension of suspects in piracy)
- A.M. v. France (deportation to Algeria)
- Bărbulescu v. Romania (surveillance at workplace)
- Big Brother Watch and Others v. United Kingdom (secret surveillance)
- Big Brother Watch and Others v. United Kingdom & Centrum för rättvisa v. Sweden (secret surveillance)
- Bodein v. France (peines perpétuelles)
- Călin Georgescu v. Romania (elections)
- D.M. v. Sweden (deportation to Afganistan)
- Delfi AS v. Estonia (liability for comments on Internet)
- De Souza Ribeiro v. France* (inability to challenge removal order)
- H.F. and Others v. France (repatriation)
- Ilias et Ahmed v. Hungary (asylum seekers)
- Ireland v. United Kingdom (revision request)
- M.N. and Others v. Belgium (visa application to an embassy's consular service)
- Matelly v. France (trade unions in the armed forces)
- Mennesson v. France & Labassee v. France* (gestational surrogacy)
- Morice v. France (lawyer’s freedom of expression)
- Mutu and Pechstein v. Switzerland (arbitration proceedings brought by athletes)
- Paradiso and Campanelli v. Italy (gestational surrogacy)
- Perinçek v. Switzerland (conviction for genocide denial)
- Platini v. Switzerland (suspension from football-related professional activity)
- Roman Zakharov v. Russia (secret surveillance)
- Semenya v. Switzerland (eligibility criteria)
- Ukraine and Netherlands v. Russia (inter-State case): English - Dutch - Russian - Ukrainian
- Vavřička and Others v. Czech Republic (mandatory childhood vaccination in the Czech Republic)
- Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, Carême v. France & Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others (climate change)
- Vinci Construction and GMT génie civil et services v. France (visits and seizures in competition law matters)
* disponible uniquement en français
The Press Service has compiled Questions & Answers on cases and themes on the Court’s case-law.
Cases
- Ali Samatar and Others v. France and Hasan and Others v. France* (apprehension of suspects in piracy)
- A.M. v. France (deportation to Algeria)
- Bărbulescu v. Romania (surveillance at workplace)
- Big Brother Watch and Others v. United Kingdom (secret surveillance)
- Big Brother Watch and Others v. United Kingdom & Centrum för rättvisa v. Sweden (secret surveillance)
- Bodein v. France (peines perpétuelles)
- Călin Georgescu v. Romania (elections)
- Delfi AS v. Estonia (liability for comments on Internet)
- De Souza Ribeiro v. France* (inability to challenge removal order)
- H.F. and Others v. France (repatriation)
- Ilias et Ahmed v. Hungary (asylum seekers)
- Ireland v. United Kingdom (revision request)
- M.N. and Others v. Belgium (visa application to an embassy's consular service)
- Matelly v. France (trade unions in the armed forces)
- Mennesson v. France & Labassee v. France* (gestational surrogacy)
- Morice v. France (lawyer’s freedom of expression)
- Mutu and Pechstein v. Switzerland (arbitration proceedings brought by athletes)
- Paradiso and Campanelli v. Italy (gestational surrogacy)
- Perinçek v. Switzerland (conviction for genocide denial)
- Platini v. Switzerland (suspension from football-related professional activity)
- Roman Zakharov v. Russia (secret surveillance)
- Semenya v. Switzerland (eligibility criteria)
- Ukraine and Netherlands v. Russia (inter-State case): English - Dutch - Russian - Ukrainian
- Vavřička and Others v. Czech Republic (mandatory childhood vaccination in the Czech Republic)
- Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, Carême v. France & Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others (climate change)
- Vinci Construction and GMT génie civil et services v. France (visits and seizures in competition law matters)
* disponible uniquement en français
Press conferences
The President of the Court used to meet members of the press as part of the Court’s annual press conference. The latter, which coincided with publication of the annual report and the opening of the judicial year of the Court, used to take place in January.
On this occasion, the President took stock of the preceding year and presented key elements of the Court’s annual report, which was published on the Court’s website the same day. The President’s intervention was followed by a questions and answers session with journalists.
Meeting with Strasbourg based journalists 2026
The President of the ECHR, Mattias Guyomar, with the Registrar Marialena Tsirli and Deputy Registrar Abel Campos met with local journalists for a briefing on the annual report on 29 January 2026. After presenting the results of the Court’s activities and statistics for 2025, they took questions from journalists.
Documents and Statistics
Press conference 2024
President Síofra O'Leary held a press conference that was streamed live on Internet.
The President of the Court gave an overview of the Court's activities in 2023 and presented the statistics for the past year. Accompanied by Marialena Tsirli, Registrar, she then took questions from journalists.
Multimedia
Webcast of the Press conference: - Original language - English version - French versionDocuments and Statistics
