Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)403
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Sefilyan against Armenia
 
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 December 2025
at the 1546th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
 
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
22491/08
SEFILYAN
02/10/2012
02/01/2013
 
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 violation of Article 8 of the Convention established on account of secret surveillance of telephone conversations with no clear rules and safeguards in law, as well as to several violations of Article 5;
 
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 judgment, including the information regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court, as well as general measures adopted to execute the judgment with regard to the violation of Article 8 (see document DH-DD(2025)322);
 
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to violations of Article 5 continue to be examined within the framework of the group of cases Poghosyan v. Armenia, and that the closure of the present cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required in respect of these issues;
 
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;
 
DECIDES to continue to supervise in the group of cases Poghosyan v. Armenia the adoption of the general measures required to guarantee the non-repetition of the violation of Article 5;
 
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.