K.O. AND V.M. v. NORWAY

FIFTH SECTION Application no. 64808/16 K.O. and V.M. against Norway lodged on 4 November 2016 STATEMENT OF FACTS Communicated on 4 May 2017 1. The first applicant is Mr K.O. and the second Ms V.M. They are Norwegian nationals who were born in 1974 and 1986 respectively and live together in F. The President decided that their identity should not be disclosed to the public (Rule 47 § 4). They are represented before the Court by Mr M. Engesbak, a lawyer practising in Oslo. A. The circumstances of the case 2. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows. 1. The emergency decision 3. On 1, 10 and 22 December 2014, the child welfare authorities received notifications of concern (bekymringsmeldinger) about A, as yet unborn. Two of the notifications came from the police and one from the preventive mental health services (forebyggende psykisk helsetjeneste – FPH)). In addition, the authorities had received three notifications from private parties, two of which were anonymous. These expressed serious concerns as to how the second applicant was being controlled and manipulated by the first applicant. According to the notifications, the first applicant had forced the second applicant to use amphetamines, cut all her clothes and put her shoes in water in order to hinder her from leaving their house. Moreover, information emerged to the extent that the second applicant had been excluded from contact with her family and network, either as...