Category: European Court of Human Rights

CASE OF D v. LATVIA – 76680/17

The case concerns the applicant’s allegation that he experienced inhuman and degrading treatment primarily under Article 3 of the Convention owing to the prevalent informal prisoner hierarchy in the prisons where he was incarcerated. European Court of Human Rights FIFTH SECTION…

CASE OF MIRANDA MAGRO v. PORTUGAL – 30138/21

European Court of Human Rights FOURTH SECTION CASE OF MIRANDA MAGRO v. PORTUGAL (Application no. 30138/21) JUDGMENT Art 3 (substantive) • Inhuman treatment • Degrading treatment • Art 5 § 1 (e) • Persons of unsound mind • Preventive detention…

CASE OF MIRANDA MAGRO v. PORTUGAL – The applicant complained of the conditions of his detention in Caxias Prison Hospital and submitted that he should have been held in a psychiatric facility in order to have access to the requisite medical care

European Court of Human Rights (Application no. 30138/21) The application concerns, under Articles 3 and 5 of the Convention, the applicant’s detention in the psychiatric unit of the Caxias Prison Hospital. Following his conviction on charges of criminal damage, making…

CASE OF NARBUTAS v. LITHUANIA – 14139/21

The case concerns various remand measures applied against the applicant in the context of a high-profile criminal investigation relating to his involvement in the acquisition by the Lithuanian government of a large number of COVID-19 tests. SECOND SECTION CASE OF…

CASE OF MATKAVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – 3963/18

The case concerns the applicants’ complaints that their close relative, who was respectively their son, husband and father, had been killed by a border guard of the de facto Abkhaz authorities and that there had been no effective investigation into…

CASE OF M.L. v. POLAND – The case concerns restrictions on abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormalities which were introduced by the Constitutional Court’s judgment of 22 October 2020

European Court of Human Rights FIRST SECTION CASE OF M.L. v. POLAND (Application no. 40119/21) JUDGMENT Art 8 • Private life • Prohibition of abortion on grounds of foetal abnormality following amendments introduced by the Constitutional Court, resulting in the…