The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the professors of the Faculty of Science, Jovan Mirković and Nevenka Antović, had their right to privacy and family life violated, by having to work under video surveillance at that higher education institution. The state of Montenegro, as ordered by the court, should pay them 1000 euros each and court costs of 1.669,50 euros.
The case concerned a complaint of violation of privacy by two professors, after video surveillance was installed in the areas where they taught six years ago, it was stated, among other things, in the judgment published yesterday.
The professors stated that the surveillance in the amphitheater and the corridor in front of the dean's office in 2011 was illegal. However, the Montenegrin courts rejected the request for compensation, considering that it is not possible to talk about the protection of private life, because the premises of the faculty are a public area.
The European Court rejected the Government's claim that the case was inadmissible. She denied the professor's allegations of violation of privacy, because "the area under surveillance was a public work area."
"The court noted that it previously established that "private life" could also include professional activities and considered that this was also the case with Mrs. Antović and Mr. Mirković," the decision states.
It was established, the judgment added, that the surveillance of the cameras threatened their right to privacy and that the evidence shows that this surveillance violated the provisions of Montenegrin law.
During the trial in the Basic Court in Podgorica, the then Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Predrag Stanišić, assessed that the cameras in that higher education institution were necessary because the safety of property and persons at that faculty was very much at risk, the amphitheatres were in very bad condition, and that there was a great danger of expensive theft. computer equipment.
Two professors then also asked the Basic Court for 1000 euros each in the name of compensation for non-material damages due to the violation of personal rights.
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