Category: European Court of Human Rights

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 HUMPERT AND OTHERS v. GERMANY – The applicants, teachers with civil servant status (Beamte), complained, in particular, about the disciplinary measures against them for having participated, during their working hours, in strikes which had been organised by the trade union of which they were members

European Court of Human Rights (Applications nos. 59433/18, 59477/18, 59481/18 and 59494/18) At the relevant time, the four applicants were State school teachers with civil servant status employed by different German Länder. They were members of the Trade Union for…