CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 25 janvier 2001

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BULGARIA   Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 9.30 a.m.   The applicants   The applicants are: Daruish Al-Nashif, a stateless person of Palestinian origin, born in 1967, who is currently living in Syria following his deportation from Bulgaria; and, Mr Al-Nashif’s two youngest children, Abrar and Auni Al-Nashif, both Bulgarian nationals, born in Bulgaria in 1993 and 1994 respectively, who live with their mother in Smolyan, Bulgaria.   Summary of the facts   Mr Al-Nashif arrived in Bulgaria in 1992 with his first wife, whom he had married in Kuwait, and obtained a temporary and later a permanent residence permit. He ran a butcher’s shop and beverages production unit and was involved in religious activities. In 1995 he married, in a religious ceremony, his second wife, a Bulgarian national, whom he was seeing until the beginning of 1998.   In 1999 Mr Al-Nashif’s residence permit was withdrawn and his deportation was ordered by virtue of orders which stated that he posed a threat to national security, without providing reasons. In later submissions the Ministry of the Interior stated that Mr Al-Nashif had engaged in unlawful religious activities which had endangered national interests. Details were not provided. He was detained pending deportation and denied contact with others. Two of his judicial appeals were declared inadmissible and a third appeal had not been examined when he was deported on 5 July 1999. The relevant law provided that national security measures concerning aliens were not subject to appeal. This was confirmed on 4 April 2000 by the Supreme Administrative Court which also held that such measures need not be reasoned.   Complaints   Mr Al-Nashif invokes Articles 5 §§ 1 and 4 (right to liberty and security), 6 (right to a fair trial), 8 (right to respect for private and family life) 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights. He also complains, under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the Convention, that he was not given sufficient time to wind up his business before being deported and that, following his deportation, it was no longer possible to conduct his business effectively. Abrar and Auni Al-Nashif also invoke Articles 8 and 13.       Procedure   The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 15 September 1999 and declared partly inadmissible on 16 December 1999.   Composition of the Court   The case will be heard by a Chamber composed as follows:   Georg Ress (German), President , Antonio Pastor Ridruejo (Spanish), Lucius Caflisch [1] (Swiss), Jerzy Makarczyk (Polish), Volodymyr Butkevych (Ukrainian), John Hedigan (Irish), Snejana Botoucharova (Bulgarian), judges , Ireneu Cabral Barreto (Portuguese), Nina Vajić (Croatian), Matti Pellonpää (Finnish), substitute judges , and also Vincent Berger , Section Registrar .   Representatives of the parties   Government:   Galina Samaras , Agent; Applicants:   Yonko Grozev , Counsel,   Krasimira Yaneva, Adviser.     ***   After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which are held in private. The decision on admissibility will be available 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)   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 Strasbourg in 1959 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. [1] Judge elected in respect of Liechtenstein.