CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 11 février 2025

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } Published on 3 March 2025   THIRD SECTION Application no. 19712/20 Evaggelos PICHAS against Greece lodged on 30 April 2020 communicated on 11 February 2025 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the fine imposed on the applicant, a police officer, for growing a beard, a practice which had been prohibited by a decision of the General Director of Hellenic Police in 2009. QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Has there been a violation of the applicant’s right to respect for his private life, contrary to Article   8 of the Convention, on account of the fine imposed on him, as a police officer, for growing a beard (see, mutatis mutandis , Biržietis v. Lithuania , no. 49304/09, 14 June 2016)?