CEDH · PRESS;FORTHCOMINGHEARINGS;ENG — 20 janvier 2010

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s598389F8 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:11pt } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA678F94A { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt } .s2E932ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s7C768949 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline; color:#0000ff } .s99A63BFE { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left; font-size:11pt } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s9FE28126 { margin-top:0pt; margin-right:42.5pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left; font-size:11pt } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic }   050 20.01.2010   Press release issued by the Registrar   FORTHCOMING HEARING       The European Court of Human Rights will be holding a Chamber hearing in the Farcas v. Romania case (application no. 32596/04) on 27 April 2010 at 9 a.m.   The applicant, Mr Alois Farcas, is a Romanian national who was born in 1964 and lives in Piatra Neamţ. He has suffered from progressive muscular dystrophy, a hereditary musculoskeletal disease, since the age of ten.   From 1983 to 2004 he worked as an electrical repair man in a telecommunications workshop. In 2004 he was transferred to a new post which required him to carry out repair work at other sites, a task ill-suited to someone with his disability because most of the institutions or firms he was sent to had no wheelchair access. On 30 April 2004 he was dismissed.   As the applicant was confined to a wheelchair and no provision had been for made for wheelchair access to the court, he was unable to challenge the decision to dismiss him, which became final. Nor was he able to register as unemployed or go to the local courts to challenge a decision not to assign him a nurse even though the doctors had recommended that he should have one.   Mr Farcas is completely dependent on his entourage in his everyday life – to do his shopping, for example – and he has to remain within a 600-metre radius of his house because of the height of the kerbs. His situation deteriorated in 2007, when his car was found unfit for the road and he could not afford the necessary repairs. The applicant feels cut off from society, unable as he is to use public transport or access the city’s administrative buildings or cultural institutions, such as theatres, museums or libraries.   The applicant has lodged complaints under several provisions of the Convention, including Articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life), 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination).   The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights in September 2004. A public hearing will be held in the Human Rights Building in Strasbourg on 27 April 2010 as part of the Court’s examination of the case.     ***   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int)     Press contacts Céline Menu-Lange (tel: + 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77) Stefano Piedimonte (tel: + 33 (0)3 90 21 42 04) Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (tel: + 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70)   Frédéric Dolt (tel: + 33 (0)3 90 21 53 39) Nina Salomon (tel: + 33 (0)3 90 21 49 79)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.