CASE OF FERREIRA VICTORINO DE QUEIRÓS AGAINST PORTUGAL AND 1 OTHER CASE

Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)80 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Two cases against Portugal   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 30 April 2025 at the 1527th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)   Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 23063/18 FERREIRA VICTORINO DE QUEIRÓS 11/06/2024 11/06/2024 48979/19 VEIGA CARDOSO 16/01/2024 16/01/2024   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 of Article 10 established due to the applicants’ criminal convictions for defamation on account of the publication of an article in a newspaper and statements made by one of the applicants;   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 information 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 documents DH-DD(2025)286 and DH-DD(2024)871);   Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the just satisfaction, where awarded by the Court, was paid and the applicants have not requested the reopening of the criminal proceedings against them;   Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in these judgments is currently examined within the framework of the group of cases Almeida Arroja v. Portugal, also in 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 in the group of cases Almeida Arroja v. Portugal;   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.