How to submit a claim to the ECtHR?

The application must be sent to the European Court of Human Rights by mail to the following address:

The Registrar European Court of Human Rights Council of Europe F-67075 Strasbourg cedex, FRANCE.

An application sent by fax cannot interrupt the six-month period.

You can apply to the European Court of Human Rights only under the following conditions:

1. You intend to challenge the behavior of the state, which itself violated your right or freedom or did not ensure their protection (this is a violation of the right or freedom guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights);

2. You have exhausted all effective national means of legal protection available to you;

3. You have not missed the deadline for applying to the Court;

4. Your case has not yet been considered by the Court on the same grounds and you do not use another international mechanism to protect your rights.

An individual application must be made in writing in the language of one of the states that have ratified the Convention. That is, regardless of the fact that proceedings at the European Court of Human Rights are conducted in English or French, you can present your statement in Ukrainian or in another official language of the member states of the Convention and its protocols. It is important to remember that an application to the Court can be made only on the official form of the application form. When filling out the application, you must comply with the requirements regarding its content. Therefore, before filling in, it is worth reading the official explanatory note for persons who wish to apply to the European Court of Human Rights: https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/application_notes_ukr