CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 5 octobre 1999

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA1D3DA2E { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify } .s94935B0F { width:389.85pt; display:inline-block } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sF95AF3A7 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:11.5pt } .s23A41E03 { width:36pt; display:inline-block } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .s858CF1B6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11.5pt } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .sDC400849 { width:4.43pt; display:inline-block } .sBA0D2B76 { width:20.4pt; display:inline-block } .s8BBDE426 { width:18.97pt; display:inline-block } .sE0BD07E1 { width:39.55pt; display:inline-block } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     528   5.10.1999   Press release issued by the Registrar   HEARING IN THE CASE OF BAGHLI v. FRANCE   Tuesday, 5 October 1999, at 9 a.m.       The applicant     The case concerns an application (no. 34374/97) brought by an Algerian national, Mohamed Baghli, who was born in 1964 and lives in Tlemcen (Algeria).   Summary of the facts     The applicant had been living in France with his family since 1967. In 1990 he was charged after it was discovered that he was implicated in heroin trafficking.     In 1991 the Belley Criminal Court sentenced him to fifteen months imprisonment, twelve months suspended, and made an order excluding him from French territory for ten years.     The applicant appealed to the Lyon Court of Appeal, which increased the sentence to three years’ imprisonment, two of which were suspended, and upheld the exclusion order. It found that Mr Baghli had admitted having received heroin on a number of occasions both for his personal consumption and for resale after adulterating it in a way that was particularly dangerous to buyers’ health. His appeal to the Court of Cassation was dismissed on 6   September 1993.     The applicant was deported to Algeria in 1994 at the end of his prison sentence.     In 1994 while still in prison, the applicant, relying on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, applied to the Lyons Court of Appeal to have the exclusion order rescinded. His application was dismissed. His appeal to the Court of Cassation was also dismissed on 19 December 1995, among other things, on the ground that the exclusion order did not amount to a disproportionate interference in his right to private and family life as guaranteed by Article 8.     That judgment was not served on the applicant. His representative said that he did not receive a copy until September 1996.   Complaint     The applicant complains that the exclusion order violates his right to respect for his private and family life as guaranteed by Article   8.     Procedure     The application was lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights on 26   December 1996. Having declared the application admissible, the Commission (Second Chamber) adopted a report on 9 September 1998 in which it expressed the opinion that there had been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention (eleven votes to three). It referred the case to the Court on 2 November 1998. The French Government also brought the case before the Court on 7   January 1999.   Composition of the Court     The case will be heard by a Chamber composed as follows:   Loukis Loucaides (Cypriot), President , Jean-Paul Costa (French), Pranas Kūris (Lithuanian), Françoise Tulkens (Belgian), Hanne Sophie Greve (Norwegian), Kristaq Traja (Albanian), Mindia Ugrekhelidze (Georgian), Judges ,   and also Sally Dollé , Section Registrar .   Representatives of the parties   Government:   Denis Douveneau , Agent , Bruno Dalles , Counsel ,   Applicant:   Jacques Debray , Counsel .       After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which are held in private. Judgment will be delivered at a later date.   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92) or   Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax: (0)3 88 41 27 91     The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 in Strasbourg to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. On 1 November 1998 a full-time Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.