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…