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512 24.06.2010   Press release issued by the Registrar   Chamber judgments[1] concerning Austria, Germany, Russia and Ukraine   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing the following seven Chamber judgments, available only in English.   Cases concerning mainly excessive length of (non-criminal) proceedings, with the Court’s main finding indicated, can be found at the end of the press release.     European University Press GmbH v. Austria (application no. 36942/05) The applicant, European University Press GmbH, is a limited liability company with its seat in Vienna. In 2002 the company published a book about the then Federal President of Austria. In April of the same year, the Vienna Commercial Court issued an injunction against the company prohibiting it from disseminating statements, contained in that book, concerning an alleged abortion which the President’s wife had been forced by him to undergo. Not having complied with that injunction, the company was fined 37 times by the domestic courts and was also ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings in those cases. Relying on Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair hearing) of the Convention, the applicant complained about not having been informed of the then President and his wife requesting the Supreme Court to oblige the applicant to pay costs in respect of ten of the injunction-related decisions. Violation of Article 6 § 1 (fairness) Just satisfaction: 3,000 euros (EUR) (costs and expenses)   Veliyev v. Russia (no. 24202/05) The applicant, Tudzhar Ali ogly Veliyev, is an Azerbaijani national who is currently serving a prison sentence for armed robbery in Vyazniki (Russia). Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), Article 5 §§ 1 (c), 3 and 4 (right to liberty and security) and Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial within a reasonable time) of the Convention, the applicant complained of the appalling conditions in which he had been detained during the criminal proceedings against him, of his detention on remand having been unlawful, too lengthy and otherwise irregular, and of the criminal proceedings lasting for too long. Violation of Article 3 (treatment) Violation of Article 5 §§ 1 (c), 3 and 4 Violation of Article 6 § 1 (length) Just satisfaction: EUR 23,400 (non-pecuniary damage) and EUR 1,000 (costs and expenses)   Oleksiy Mykhaylovych Zakharkin v. Ukraine (no. 1727/04) The applicant, Oleksiy Mykhaylovych Zakharkin, is a Ukrainian national who lived in Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine) at the relevant time. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 5 §§ 1 (c) and 3 (right to liberty and security), the applicant complained that, arrested in May 2003 on suspicion of possession of illegal drugs, he had been ill-treated by the police and that there has been no effective investigation into those events. He further complained about having been detained unlawfully and not having been brought before a judge quickly enough after his arrest. Violations of Article 3 (treatment and investigation) Violation of Article 5 §§ 1 (c) and 3 Just satisfaction: EUR 10,000 (non-pecuniary damage)     Length-of-proceedings cases   Afflerbach v. Germany (no. 39444/08) Kuchejda v. Germany (no. 17384/06) Perschke v. Germany (no. 25756/09) Schädlich v. Germany (no. 21423/07) In these cases, the applicants complained in particular under Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time) about the excessive length of (non-criminal) proceedings. Violation of Article 6 § 1 – in all cases Violation of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) – 1st and 3rd cases   ***   These summaries by the Registry do not bind the Court. The full texts of the Court’s judgments are accessible on its Internet site (http://www.echr.coe.int).   Press contacts [email protected] / +33 3 90 21 42 08 Stefano Piedimonte (telephone : + 33 3 90 21 42 04) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone : + 33 3 88 41 35 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (telephone: + 33 3 88 41 35 70) Céline Menu-Lange (telephone : + 33 3 90 21 58 77) Frédéric Dolt (telephone : + 33 3 90 21 53 39) Nina Salomon (telephone : + 33 3 90 21 49 79)   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.   [1] Under Articles  43  and 44 of the Convention, this Chamber judgment is not final. During the three-month period following its 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 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 the day the request is rejected. 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.