Human Rights Review Panel - 21st SessionPress Release The Human Rights Review Panel (the Panel) held its 21th session in Pristina from 26 to 28 May 2014. In a follow up decision to the so called “Vidovdan cases” (two cases relating to incidents of Vidovdan day on 28 June 2012) the Panel found that the EULEX Head of Mission had implemented its recommendations. One case was found admissible. It related to the alleged failure by EULEX to investigate a usurpation of the complainant’s flat. The Panel found that the complaint raised issues under Articles 13 (a right to an effective remedy) and 14 (freedom from discrimination) of the European Convention of Human Rights as well as Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the Convention (a right to peaceful enjoyment of one’s possessions). It invited the EULEX Head of Mission and the complainant to submit their additional observations on the merits of this case. The Panel declared seven other cases inadmissible. In two of them it found that it had not been shown that EULEX was involved in any capacity in the matters complained about. In four others, the Panel found that they fell outside of its competence, as the Panel has no jurisdiction to review judicial proceedings before the Kosovo courts. One case was declared manifestly ill-founded. The Panel communicated eight cases to the EULEX Head of Mission, asking for his observations on their admissibility and merits. Seven of them have been lodged by relatives of persons missing or killed during the conflict in 1999. The complainants submit that EULEX has failed to carry out executive investigations into their relatives’ deaths and disappearances. One case concerns proceedings before the Privatisation Agency of Kosovo. All decisions will be published on the Panel’s website upon translation into the Albanian and Serbian languages. The next Panel session is scheduled to take place from 25 to 27 August 2014. Notes to the editor; |
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