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issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 262 (2015) 31.08.2015 Forthcoming judgments and decisions The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing one judgment on Tuesday 8 September 2015 and three judgments and / or decisions on Thursday 10 September 2015. Press releases and texts of the judgments and decisions will be available at 10 a.m. (local time) on the Court's Internet site (www.echr.coe.int) Tuesday 8 September 2015 Just Satisfaction �nal Akpinar naat, Sanayi, Turizm, Madencilik ve Ticaret S.A. v. Turkey (application no. 41246/98) The applicant, �nal Akpinar naat malat Sanayi ve Ticaret S.A., is a public limited liability company incorporated under Turkish law. In July 1981 the Water Board, an administrative entity of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources ("the authorities"), issued a public call for tenders for the construction of the anliurfa aqueduct (in Turkey) as part of the Southeast Anatolia Development Project (GAP � G�neydou Anadolu Kalkinma Projesi). A contract was duly signed between the authorities and the applicant company. A few years later the applicant company suspended the work on the ground that the terms of the contract no longer corresponded to the unforeseeable economic fluctuations that had occurred in the meantime. In proceedings brought against the authorities for the recovery of debts and damages the Turkish courts awarded various sums to the applicant company, before delivering its final judgment on 30 December 2004. Relying on Article 1 of Protocol No.1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant company alleged that the authorities had waited until the proceedings had definitively ended before paying it a derisory sum that could not offset the losses incurred as a result of inflation and exchange-rate fluctuations. In its principal judgment of 26 May 2009 the Court held that there had been a violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 and reserved the question of the application of Article 41 (just satisfaction) of the Convention. The Court will rule on the question of just satisfaction in its judgment of 8 September 2015. Thursday 10 September 2015 R.H. v. Sweden (no. 4601/14) The case concerns the deportation of a Somali asylum-seeker. The applicant, Ms R.H., is a Somali national who was born in 1988. She applied for asylum in Sweden in December 2011, claiming that she had just arrived in the country. The Migration Board and migration courts examined her situation and eventually rejected her asylum application in June 2013 and ordered her deportation to Somalia. Those instances found that the applicant's statements to the authorities lacked credibility: notably, she had already filed asylum applications in Italy and the Netherlands before arriving in Sweden in 2007, staying there illegally until contacting the migration authorities in 2011; and, initially claiming that she had left Somalia because of the war, had then changed her story to allege that she had fled Somalia with a secret boyfriend to escape a forced marriage to an older man and feared ill-treatment by her family on her return, particularly by her uncles who had already severely beaten her in 2004 for trying to escape. The applicant subsequently submitted a petition to have the enforcement of her deportation order stopped, claiming that her uncles had joined al-Shabaab, a jihadist terrorist group based in Somalia, forcing her brother to also join the group and killing her sister. The Migration Board rejected her petition in September 2013. The applicant's deportation was stayed in January 2014 on the basis of an interim measure granted by the European Court of Human Rights under Rule 39 of its Rules of Court, which indicated to the Swedish Government that the applicant should not be expelled to Somalia whilst the Court was considering the case. Relying in particular on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the Convention, Ms R.H. alleges that, if removed from Sweden to Somalia, she would face a real risk of either being killed by her uncles for refusing to agree to a forced marriage before fleeing Somalia or forced to marry a man against her will again upon her return. She further claims that the general situation in Somalia for women was very difficult, in particular for those � such as herself � who lacked a male network and were therefore all the more vulnerable. The Court will give its rulings in writing on the following cases, some of which concern issues which have already been submitted to the Court, including excessive length of proceedings. These rulings can be consulted from the day of their delivery on the Court's online database HUDOC. They will not appear in the press release issued on that day. T.A. and Others v. Switzerland (no. 50165/14) Alada v. Turkey (no. 67449/12) This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive the Court's press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter @ECHRpress. 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