inhuman and degrading treatment Archives

The inadequate investigation of a patient’s death in a hospital consists of a violation of the right to life

Article 2
14/06/2019 18:49

JUDGMENT Prizreni v. Albania 11.06.2019 (no. 29309/16) see here SUMMARY Death of a hospitalized patient under non specified conditions. Authorities’ failure to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into the circumstances of the death and his treatment. Protection of life. The applicant’s brother passed away while being hospitalised for serious illness. The forensic investigation […]

The deterioration in detention conditions during the prison wardens’ strike constitutes degrading treatment

Article 3
03/06/2019 17:20

JUDGMENT Clasens v. Belgium 28.05.2019 (no. 26564/16) see here SUMMARY Degrading treatment of prisoners. Prison guard strike. Conditions of detention in Ittre Prison during a strike by prison wardens between April and June 2016. The Court found that Mr Clasens’ conditions of detention during the prison wardens’ strike amounted to degrading treatment, resulting from the cumulative […]

The use of excessive force by the counter-terrorist service is inhuman and degrading treatment.

Article 3
01/06/2019 11:33

JUDGMENT Kanciał v. Poland 23.05.2019 (no. 37023/13) see here SUMMARY Police violence using an electric weapon during a raid by the Anti-Terrorism Service. Exessive use of police force against the applicant, who had already been immobilized at that time. Incomplete investigation of his allegations of ill treatment. Violation of the substantive and procedural aspect of […]

Deportation to Algeria of a convicted of terrorist acts. There is no risk of inhuman or degrading treatment. No infringement of Article 3 of the ECHR.

Article 3
02/05/2019 18:12

JUDGMENT Α.Μ. v. France 29.04.2019 (no. 12148/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerns the applicant’s planned deportation to Algeria after he was convicted in France in 2015 for participating in acts of terrorism and was permanently banned from French territory. The Court found that the general situation in Algeria as regards the treatment of individuals […]

Unjustified violent police raid against a Roma settlement with injuries. Condemnation for degrading treatment and racist motives!

Article 3
21/04/2019 06:17

JUDGMENT Lingurar v. Romania 16.04.2019 (no. 48474/14) see here SUMMARY Raid by 85 policemen in the Roma community in Romania and injury by the applicants. The Court found that there was no justification for the disproportionate use of force during the raid against the applicant’s family members. The applicants were unarmed and never accused of […]

Inhuman and degrading treatment of Afghans by Greek police officers!

Article 3
15/04/2019 19:20

JUDGMENT Sarwari and others v. Greece 11.04.2019 (no. 38089/12) see here SUMMARY Ten Afghan nationals denounced that they had been mistreated by police officers in search of an Afghan fugitive who had escaped from a courtroom. Nine of the applicants complained that they had been ill-treated in the building where they lived, while the tenth […]

The risk of an accused of being flogged in Iran and the Court’s drastic intervention

Article 3
05/04/2019 18:49

JUDGMENT G.S. v. Bulgaria 04.04.2019 (no. 36538/17) see here SUMMARY Risk of flogging a Georgian accused of theft in Iran. Request for extradition to the Bulgarian authorities. The Bulgarian courts had assumed that the only penalty that would be imposed on the applicant was that of imprisonment. The offense of the theft for which he […]

Keeping prisoners in the cells for 23 hours a day is a degrading treatment. Temporary detention legislation must accurately stipulate its duration

Article 13
29/03/2019 17:16

JUDGMENT Bigović v. Montenegro 19.03.2019 (no. 48343/16) see here SUMMARY Degrading conditions of detention. A prisoner sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for murdering an investigator remained for 23 hours a day locked in his cells and the only regular activity outside the cell was exercise for one hour a day. Lack of adequate provision for […]

Hearing procedure with the accused in a metal cage. Degrading treatment.

Article 3
28/03/2019 11:48

JUDGMENT Valyuzhenich v. Russia 26.03.2019 (no. 10597/13) see here SUMMARY The applicant was detained in a metal cage in the course of his criminal proceedings, which lasted 16 trial days, but also during his participation in the hearing from prison through videoconference. No office in the cage, which deprived the defendant of the possibility of […]

Information of the Afghan immigrants in the island of Chios in Greek that they could appeal against deportation to an administrative court without specifying which court was i and where it was, since in Chios such a court did not exist. Violation of the ECHR

Article 3
22/03/2019 10:14

JUDGMENT O.S.A. and others v. Greece 21.03.2019 (no. 39065/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicants’ conditions of detention in the Vial centre on the island of Chios, and the issues of the lawfulness of their detention, the courts’ review of their case, and the information provided to them. The Court considered that, in […]

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