Greece's convictions reach 948 in European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), as revealed in Parliament by Professor and ECHR judge, John Ktistakis. As he explained, Greece paid for these convictions. 28,256,237 euros.
In particular, when briefing the Parliamentary Committee for Monitoring the Decisions of the Court of Human Rights, Mr. Ktistakis emphasized:
-Today A total of 2,214 individual appeals against Greece are pending., far more than those pending in previous years.
-Of these, 1,782, or 81%, relate exclusively to detention conditions in the country's correctional facilities.
-The 432 cases concern almost all articles of the European Convention, with the most prevalent violations being non-compliance by the administration with national court decisions, police violence, freedom of expression, and property rights.
It is indicative, as Mr. Ktistakis said, that Belgium has only 285 convictions, compared to 948 in Greece and only 234 pending appeals, compared to 2,214 in Greece.
«Belgium paid €1,745,909 in compensation awarded by the European Court of Justice in the last decade (2011-2021), while Greece paid six times more, €28,256,237,» said the judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
As Mr. Ktistakis clarified, the main causes of the problem that rank our country among the lowest in terms of human rights protection «is the decades-long failure to comply with the judgments against it and to eliminate the sources that multiply the violations.» «This inability results in the number of pending appeals multiplying every year, because the same issue keeps coming up with new individual appeals,» Mr. Ktistakis pointed out.
