issued by the Registrar of the Court  
ECHR 234 (2022)  
07.07.2022  
Judgments and decisions of 7 July 2022  
The European Court of Human Rights has today given notification in writing of 24 judgments1 and  
30 decisions2:  
five Chamber judgments are summarised below;  
three separate press releases have been issued for Chamber judgments in the cases of SCI Le  
Château du Francport v. France (application no. 3269/18), Safi and Others v. Greece (no. 5418/15),  
and M.S. v. Italy (no. 32715/19);  
a separate press release has also been issued for one decision in the case of Thibaut v. France  
(nos. 41892/19 and 41893/19);  
16 Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been examined by the Court, and  
the 29 other decisions can be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.  
The judgment in French below is indicated with an asterisk (*).  
Tagiyeva v. Azerbaijan (application no. 72611/14)  
The applicant, Maila Bulud gizi Tagiyeva, is an Azerbaijani national who was born in in 1964 and lives  
in Baku.  
The case concerns the death of the applicant’s husband, Rafig Tagiyev, following his stabbing on  
19 November 2011. Mr Tagiyev was a well-known writer and columnist. He was known in particular  
for his critical views on Islam, and a religious fatwa was issued in Iran in 2006 calling for his death  
after the publication of a series of articles, the “East-West studies”, he had authored. The  
investigation into his killing was suspended in 2013 because it had not been possible to identify the  
perpetrator. The national courts dismissed all the applicant’s subsequent challenges to this decision.  
Relying on Articles 2 (right to life), 10 (freedom of expression) and 13 (right to an effective remedy)  
of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant complains that the State failed to  
protect her husband’s right to life, that the criminal investigation into his murder was ineffective,  
and that he was targeted on account of his publications.  
No violation of Article 2 (right to life)  
Violation of Article 2 (investigation)  
Just satisfaction:  
non-pecuniary damage: 12,000 euros (EUR)  
costs and expenses: EUR 2,000  
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Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a judgment’s  
delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a panel of five  
judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and deliver a final  
judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the Convention,  
judgments delivered by a Committee are final.  
Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.  
Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution.  
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Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.  
Jurišić v. Croatia (no. 2) (no. 8000/21)  
The applicant, Stjepan Jurišić, is a Croatian national who was born in 1970 and lives in Sesvetski  
Kraljevec (Croatia).  
The case concerns a contact dispute over the applicant’s son, born in 2006.  
In a previous judgment of 16 January 2020 (Jurišić v. Croatia, application no. 29419/17), the  
European Court found that the applicant had been unable to have any meaningful contact with his  
son practically since birth, notably on account of non-enforcement of judicial decisions in his favour.  
Enforcement of that judgment is still pending before the Committee of Ministers, the executive arm  
of the Council of Europe.  
Since this 2020 judgment the Croatian courts have issued fresh decisions for gradually  
re-establishing contact between the applicant and his son, while the mother has been found guilty of  
obstruction.  
In this second application to the European Court the applicant complains under Article 8 (right to  
respect for private and family life) of the European Convention about his continued inability to have  
contact with his son.  
No violation of Article 8  
Torosian v. Greece (no. 48195/17)*  
The applicant, Garik Torosian, is an Armenian national who was born in 1983. He lives in Thessaloniki  
(Greece). On 16 February 2015 he was arrested pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by an  
investigating judge and placed in pre-trial detention in relation to criminal proceedings that were  
pending against him for armed robbery, committed jointly and in coincidence with other offences  
and in a particularly brutal manner against persons, resulting in death and serious bodily injury. In  
2020 he was sentenced twice by the appeal court to life imprisonment. The applicant appealed on  
points of law.  
The case concerns the applicant’s allegation that he was subjected to ill-treatment by police officers  
on the day of his arrest. It also concerns the criminal and disciplinary proceedings against those  
police officers.  
Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the Convention,  
the applicant alleges that he was submitted to physical violence by the police officers during his  
arrest.  
Relying on Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), he submits that the administrative and judicial  
authorities did not carry out an effective investigation into his allegations of police violence.  
Relying on Article 6 (right to a fair hearing), he alleges a breach of his right of access to a court on  
account of the dismissal, as inadmissible, of an appeal lodged by him on 6 July 2016.  
Violation of Article 3 (investigation)  
No violation of Article 3 (inhuman treatment)  
Just satisfaction:  
non-pecuniary damage: EUR 10,000  
the Court rejected the applicant’s claim for costs and expenses since he had not submitted any  
supporting documents  
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Chocholáč v. Slovakia (no. 81292/17)  
The applicant, Roman Chocholáč, is a Slovak national who was born in 1989. He is serving a life  
sentence in Leopoldov Prison (Slovakia) for murder.  
The case concerns the ban on prison inmates’ possessing pornographic material. In 2013 some  
pornographic images were seized from Mr Chocholáč. He was found guilty of a disciplinary offence.  
In the final domestic judgment in the case, the Constitutional Court held, among other things, that  
the relevant law was absolute on the matter, that prison involved isolation from the opposite sex,  
and that pornography could prompt sexual and violent offences. The law left no room for balancing  
the ban on such material against the individual’s right to receive information.  
He relies on Article 8 (right to respect for private life) and Article 10 (freedom of expression).  
Violation of Article 8  
Just satisfaction:  
non-pecuniary damage: EUR 2,600  
Ferhatović v. Slovenia (no. 64725/19)  
The applicant, Sebastjan Ferhatović, is a Slovenian national who was born in 1984 and lives in  
Ljubljana.  
The case concerns the seizure of three large bags of copper wire from the applicant – then a  
defendant in criminal proceedings – and their handover to Company E., from which the wire had  
allegedly been stolen. The wire, at a value of 23,000 euros, had allegedly been stolen from the  
company. Charges were lodged against the applicant for the alleged crime in 2010 and dropped in  
2012.  
Relying on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the Convention, the applicant  
complains about the handover of the wire.  
Violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1  
Just satisfaction:  
The finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for the non-pecuniary  
damage sustained by the applicant.  
pecuniary damage: EUR 16,500  
costs and expenses: EUR 5,000  
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The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe member  
States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.  
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