Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)254
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Poulopoulos against Greece
 
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 17 September 2025
at the 1537th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
 
 
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
27936/18
POULOPOULOS
20/03/2025
20/03/2025
 
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 judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violations established on account of the poor conditions of the applicant’s detention, a terminally ill patient, in the Korydallos Prison Hospital in 2018 and the lack of an effective domestic remedy for the applicant, to complain about these conditions of detention;
 
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 measures adopted in order to give effect to the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2025)729);
 
Noting with satisfaction the measures to address the poor conditions of detention at the Korydallos Prison Hospital and lack of an effective remedy for terminally ill patients to request release on medical grounds;
 
Noting that the closure of the above issue is without prejudice to the supervision of the effectiveness of the general remedy for poor conditions of detention, which includes complaints about the lack of proper medical treatment, which continues to be examined within the Nisiotis group;
 
Having satisfied itself that all the measures required by Article 46, paragraph 1, have been adopted,
 
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case and
 
DECIDES to close the examination thereof.