The European Court of Human Rights in 2014 accepted 1,105 applications against Moldova. According to the Legal Resources Center of Moldova, the number of applications per capita is very high. By this indicator, Moldova last year ranked fourth among the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, IPN reports.
The total number of applications submitted last year is by 18.5% lower than in 2013. According to the Center, the decline is due to the 15% reduction in the general number of applications at the ECHR in 2014 and to the fact that in 2013-2014 the Court rejected over 4,000 Moldovan applications, which could have discouraged the lawyers who met with refusals to apply to the ECHR again.
98.2% of the Moldovan applications examined in 2014 were rejected as inadmissible. Decisions were passed in 1.8% of the cases (25 applications). On December 31, 2014, 1,159 Moldovan applications were pending at the ECHR.
In 98.5% of all the Moldovan court decisions examined, the ECHR identified at least one violation. Most of the violations concern the non-implementation of decisions of the national courts, mainly owing to situations that occurred until 2007, inappropriate investigation of cases of ill-treatment, detention in poor conditions, illegal quashing of irrevocable court decisions, abuse on the part of representatives of the state.
By the decisions passed until December 31, 2014, Moldova was obliged to pay over €14 million damages. Another over €3 million was awarded based on amicable settlements or unilateral statements formulated by the Government.
