Type: Decision

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 11/17/2016

Subject: Judgment with which the Court decided to strike the application out if its lists of cases. The 212 applicants in this case belonged to a group of people known as the “erased”, i.e. former nationals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (“the SFRY”) with permanent residence in Slovenia, whose names were deleted from Slovenia’s Register of Permanent Residents, following the dissolution of the SFRY, Slovenia’s declaration of independence and passing of the “independence legislation” in 1991. In a previous pilot judgment (in the Grand Chamber case Kurić and others vs Slovenia, n. 26828/06), of June 2012 the European Court of Human Rights ordered Slovenia to set up a domestic compensation scheme

Parties: Anastasov e altri c. Slovenia

Classification: Citizens’ rights