Vol. XVII, No. 3 P. O. Box 819, Assonet, Massachusetts 02702 July-September 1998
From official European Commission on Human Rights website http://194.250.50.201/eng/E276INFO.148.html
Communiqué issued by the Secretary
to the European Commission of Human
Rights
INFORMATION NOTE No.
148
on the 276th Session of
the
European Commission of Human
Rights
(Strasbourg, Monday 2 March - Friday 13
March 1998)
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The 276th Session of the European Commission of
Human Rights (Council of Europe) was held at the Human Rights Building in
Strasbourg from 2 to 13 March 1998. At the close of the session the Secretary
gave the following information on matters dealt with in the
Commission:
The Commission dealt with 715
applications under Article 25 of the Convention and also examined one
application under Article 24 of the Convention. Among the applications examined
by the Commission were the following: . . .
II. Reports
adopted
(i) Reports adopted under Article
28 para. 2 of the Convention (friendly
settlement)
(a) One Report was adopted by
the plenary Commission under Article 28 para. 2 of the Convention, concluding
that a friendly settlement had been
secured:
- KHRISTIANSKO SDRUZHENIE
"SVIDETELI NA IEHOVA" (CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES) v.
Bulgaria (Application No. 28626/95)
The
case concerned the refusal to re-register the applicant association pursuant to
a 1994 law, and the alleged suppression of its activities and those of its
members. In settlement, the Government agreed to introduce legislation as soon
as possible to provide for civilian service for conscientious objectors, as an
alternative to military service, and to register the applicant association as a
religion. The applicant undertook with regard to
its stance on blood transfusions to
draft a statement for inclusion in its statute providing
that members should have free choice
in the matter for themselves and their children,
without any control or sanction on the part of
the association. [emphasis added]
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