Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)432
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Beizaras and Levickas against Lithuania
 
(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
41288/15
Beizaras and Levickas
14/01/2020
14/05/2020
 
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 refusal of the authorities, due to their discriminatory attitudes, to launch an investigation into the applicants’ allegations of having been subjected to serious homophobic online hate speech in 2014, after 31 hateful comments were posted on the first applicant’s Facebook page, as well as the denial of an effective domestic remedy in respect of their complaint concerning a breach of their right to private life, on account of the discriminatory attitudes in the application of domestic law;
 
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;
 
Recalling that, at its 1419th meeting (December 2021) (DH), the Committee decided that no further individual measures are necessary in this case (see CM/Del/Dec(2021)1419/H46-22);
 
Having examined the action report provided by the government, indicating the general measures adopted in order to give effect to the judgment (see document DH-DD(2024)926);
 
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.