In the case of Zăicescu and Fălticineanu v. Romania the Court held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life in conjunction with the prohibition of discrimination.

The case concerned the retrial and acquittal of two army officers in the 1990s who had been convicted in the 1950s of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their involvement in, among other crimes, the persecution of Romanian Jews in 1941, in particular the Iași pogrom, which one of the applicants had survived, and the placement of a high number of Jews in ghettos, which was the case for both applicants.

The Court found that the revision of historical convictions for crimes connected with the Holocaust had not been adequately justified by the Government, and must have caused feelings of vulnerability and humiliation in Holocaust victims such as the applicants. The ill-treatment the applicants had suffered had taken place nine years before the Convention had come into existence and 50 years before Romania had signed the Convention, and the most important procedural steps incumbent on the Government had taken place long before Romania had become a High Contracting Party.

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