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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 218 (2024)   19.09.2024   Judgments and decisions of 19 September 2024   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing four judgments1 and five decisions2:   two Chamber judgments are summarised below;   a separate press release has been issued for the decision in the case of Morelli v. Italy (application   no. 23984/19);   two Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been examined by the Court, and   the four other decisions, can be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.   The judgments summarised below are available only in English.   M.D. and Others v. Hungary (application no. 60778/19)   The applicants are an Afghan family of six. They currently live in Oldenburg (Germany).   The case concerns the family’s removal from Hungary to Serbia. The family, who had fled Iran, arrived   in January 2019 at the Röszke transit zone situated at the Hungarian border with Serbia. The Hungarian   authorities rejected their asylum application and ordered their removal to Serbia. Serbia refused to   readmit them and their destination country was changed to Afghanistan. Instead of being expelled to   Afghanistan, however, the applicant family allege that in May 2019 they were driven from the transit   zone and made to cross the border to Serbia. According to the Hungarian Government, the family had   wanted to leave for Serbia.   Relying on Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 (prohibition of collective expulsion) to the European Convention   on Human Rights, taken alone and in conjunction with Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the   European Convention, the applicants complain that they were forced to return to Serbia, without a   valid decision ordering their expulsion to that State, without regard for the Serbian authorities’ refusal   to readmit them and without their having had access to an interpreter or a lawyer.   Violation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 4   Just satisfaction:   non-pecuniary damage: 9,000 euros (EUR) to the applicants jointly   Trapitsyna and Isaeva v. Hungary (no. 5488/22)   The applicants, Elena Trapitsyna, and her daughter, Szofia Isaeva, are Russian nationals who were born   in 1965 and 2008. They live in Vienna.   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.   The case concerns the decision to expel Ms Trapitsyna from Hungary in 2020 on national security   grounds and the ensuing revocation of her and her daughter’s permits to stay in the country.   Ms Trapitsyna had been living in Hungary since 1995 and her daughter had been born there.   Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention, the applicants allege   that the expulsion order was based on classified information that they had no access to and that the   immigration authorities did not take into account that they were fully integrated into Hungarian   society.   Violation of Article 8   Just satisfaction:   to the applicants jointly:   non-pecuniary damage: EUR 10,000   costs and expenses: EUR 4,000   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 X (Twitter)   @ECHR_CEDH.   Press contacts   [email protected]e.int | tel.: +33 3 90 21 42 08   We are happy to receive journalists’ enquiries via either email or telephone.   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)   Neil Connolly (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 48 05)   Jane Swift (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 29 04)   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