Communicated on 13 March 2018

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 52374/15 József BANCSÓK against Hungary lodged on 7 October 2015

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the applicant ’ s conviction, on 22 April 2015, of murder and other offences. He was sentenced to actual life imprisonment, meaning that he cannot be considered for parole earlier than 40 years of time served. The applicant was born in 1979.

QUESTION tO THE PARTIES

Has the applicant been deprived of any real prospect of release and thus potentially subjected to inhuman punishment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention, in view of the fact that he will not be eligible for release on parole before 40 years (cf. T.P. and A.T. v. Hungary , nos. 37871/14 and 73986/14, 4 October 2016)?