CASE OF MAHAMMAD AND OTHERS AGAINST GREECE AND 4 OTHER CASES

Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)274 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Five cases against Greece   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 6 November 2024 at the 1511th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)    Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 48352/12 MAHAMMAD AND OTHERS 15/01/2015 15/04/2015 5124/11 R.T. 11/02/2016 11/05/2016 66702/13 S.Z. 21/06/2018 21/09/2018 34215/16 KAAK AND OTHERS 03/10/2019 03/01/2020 73700/13 E.K. 14/01/2021 14/04/2021   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 final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of the poor conditions of detention of foreign nationals (violations of Article 3), the unlawfulness of their detention with a view to extradition (violation of Article 5, paragraph 1, in the S.Z. case), the lack of an effective and accessible remedy to challenge the lawfulness of their detention (violations of Article 5, paragraph 4) and the deficiencies of the asylum procedure (violations of Article 13 in conjunction with Article 3 in the R.T. case);   Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:   -          of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and -          of general measures preventing similar violations;   Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;   Having examined the action report provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2024)1070);   Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the applicants have been released from detention and that the applicant in the R.T. case, withdrew his asylum application;   Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in these judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the MD and M.S.S. groups of cases, also in the light of the Court’s findings in these cases, and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required;   DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases;   CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;   DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures within the framework of the MD group of cases;   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.