In the case of Navalnyy v. Russia, the Court held that there had been several violations of the Convention.

The applicant is a political activist, opposition leader, anti-corruption campaigner and popular blogger. The case concerned this arrest on 7 occasions at different public gatherings, and his subsequent prosecution for administrative offences.

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In the case of Kalnėnienė v. Belgium, the Court found a violation of the right to respect for private life on account of a house search which was conducted in the applicant’s home without a search warrant.

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On 3 February 2017 Jean-Marc Sauvé, Vice-President of the French Conseil d’État, accompanied by a delegation made up of Bernard Stirn, President of the Administrative Disputes Section, Maryvonne de Saint-Pulgent, President of the Reports and Studies Section, Fabien Raynaud, member of the Conseil d’État and President of the 6th Division, Yves Gounin, member of the Conseil d’État with responsibility for international relations, Mattias Guyomar, member of the Conseil d’État and President of the 10th Division, Béatrice Bourgeois-Machureau, member of the Conseil d’État and Public Rapporteur with the 2nd Division, and Guillaume Odinet, legal adviser with the Conseil d’État, visited the Court and were received by President Guido Raimondi. During the visit the delegation took part in a Round Table composed of Juges Angelika Nußberger, Vice-President of the Court and judge elected in respect of Germany, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Section President and judge elected in respect of Greece, André Potocki, judge elected in respect of France, and Síofra O’Leary, judge elected in respect of Ireland.

The Court rejected all 19 requests for referral to the Grand Chamber.

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Cases pending before the Grand Chamber

“Country profiles” containing data and information, broken down by individual State, on significant cases considered by the Court or currently pending before it, have been updated on the occasion of the ECHR Press Conference. There is one country file for each Council of Europe member State.

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In February 2017 the Court will be holding a hearing in the case of Correia de Matos v. Portugal.

The case concerns the criminal proceedings brought against the applicant, a lawyer, for insulting a judge, and the fact that he was not permitted to conduct his own defence in those proceedings because the domestic courts required him to be represented by a lawyer.

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Speaking at the annual press conference of the Court on 26 January 2017, President Guido Raimondi took stock of the year 2016 and reported that the volume of incoming cases, after falling over the previous two years, had considerably increased.

This had largely been the result of the situation in three countries: Hungary and Romania, for complaints about detention conditions, and Turkey, especially since the dramatic attempted coup d’état in July 2016.

Press release Speech by President Guido Raimondi (in French only)  Webcast of the Press Conference

Analysis of statistics 2016 Annual Report 2016 

Violations by Article and by State 2016