Communicated on 17 June 2015

THIRD SECTION

Application no. 39628/14 Vasile GRIGORAȘ against Romania lodged on 20 November 2014

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The applicant, Mr Vasile GrigoraÈ™ , is a Romanian national who was born in 1978 and is currently detained in Timi ÅŸ oara Prison.

The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.

Since February 2014 the applicant has been working in the Riluc base within Timi ÅŸ oara Prison, sewing shoes. He describes as follows the living and working conditions. He is sharing a 13 , 5 sq. m cell with eight other inmates. There are nine bunk beds and a 3 m long table in the cell.

In order to fulfil the work quota, the inmates have to bring sacks of shoes with them and to work in the cell. There can be from 20 to 60 sacks of shoes at all times in the cell. The shoes contain toxic fumes which emanate strong odours during night time. Some shoes have bedbugs in them. Not all inmates receive adequate tools for their work. They have to borrow from each other makeshift tools for piercing holes in the shoes with which inmates, including the applicant, stub themselves accidentally.

On 17 June 2014 the applicant was tested positive for hepatitis B virus. He claims that he contacted the illness in prison, because of the poor living and working conditions.

COMPLAINT

The applicant complains under Article 5 of the Convention that he works in unsafe conditions, the living space is small, the hygiene is poor, the air is toxic and he contacted hepatitis B because of sharing the same makeshift tools with other inmates.

QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES

1. Has the applicant exhausted all effective domestic remedies, as required by Article 35 § 1 of the Convention, concerning the work conditions in prison?

2. Are the working conditions in prison in breach of the requirements of Article 3 of the Convention?

3. Are the material conditions of the applicant ’ s detention in breach of the requirements of Article 3 of the Convention?

The Government are invited to provide information on the applicant ’ s stay in prison, prison work conditions and his prison medical records .