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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 187 (2017)   08.06.2017   Judgments and decisions of 8 June 2017   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing ten judgments1 and 27 decisions2:   one Chamber judgment is summarised below; a separate press release has been issued for one   other Chamber judgment in the case of National Turkish Union and Kungyun v. Bulgaria (application   no. 4776/08);   eight Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, and   the 27 decisions can be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.   The judgment below is available only in French.   M.M. v. Bulgaria (application no. 75832/13)   The applicant, M.M., is a stateless person of Palestinian origin. He was born in 1991 in Damascus and   lives in Sofia.   M.M. arrived in Bulgaria on 22 July 2008. After rejecting his two applications for refugee status, the   Refugees’ Agency granted him humanitarian status. He was issued with a residence permit.   By an order of 13 July 2013 the National Security Agency withdrew M.M.’s residence permit and   ordered his expulsion, together with a ten-year entry ban, on the grounds that his presence in the   country posed a threat to national security. A separate order was made for his placement in   administrative detention. He was placed in the Busmantsi temporary detention centre for aliens   near Sofia. The Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the appeals lodged by the applicant against   these orders were inadmissible as being out of time.   In November 2013 M.M. was transferred to Sofia Airport and put on a flight bound for Lebanon. As   the Lebanese authorities refused him entry he was sent back to Bulgaria. On his arrival in Sofia he   was detained at the airport. On 4 December 2014 the Court, after receiving a request for interim   measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, decided to indicate to the Bulgarian Government that   they should not expel the applicant to Syria for the duration of the proceedings before it.   On 14 December 2013 the National Security Agency stayed execution of the expulsion measure and   ordered M.M.’s placement in administrative detention. M.M. applied to the Sofia Administrative   Court, arguing that his detention was no longer justified since execution of the expulsion measure   had been stayed. The Administrative Court upheld his detention, but that judgment was quashed by   the Supreme Administrative Court. The Administrative Court ordered M.M.’s release.   In parallel with these proceedings, the Sofia Administrative Court ordered the extension of the   applicant’s detention for a further six months. He was therefore released on 16 December 2014.   Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber   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   Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.   Relying in particular on Article 5 § 4 (right to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of detention) of the   European Convention on Human Rights, M.M. alleged that his appeal against the lawfulness of his   placement in detention in December 2013 had not been examined “speedily”.   Violation of Article 5 § 4   Just satisfaction: 2,000 euros (EUR)(non-pecuniary damage) and EUR 3,000 (costs and expenses)   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   @ECHR_Press.   Press contacts   [email protected] | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Inci Ertekin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 55 30)   George Stafford (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 71)   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.   2