Lorsé and Others v. the Netherlands (dec.)
Doc ref: 52750/99 • ECHR ID: 002-5522
Document date: August 28, 2001
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Information Note on the Court’s case-law 33
August 2001
Lorsé and Others v. the Netherlands (dec.) - 52750/99
Decision 28.8.2001 [Section I]
Article 3
Inhuman treatment
Conditions of detention in high security prisons: admissible
[This summary also covers the decision of the case Van der Ven v. the Netherlands , no. 50901/99, 28 August 2001.]
The first applicant was convicted of drugs and firearms offences and se ntenced to imprisonment. He was detained successively in two high security prisons, the Temporary Extra Security Institution (TEBI) and the Extra Security Institution (EBI), from September 1994 to January 2001. The other applicants in the first application are relatives of his. The applicant in the second application was charged with a number of serious offences and has been in detention on remand in the TEBI since October 1997. The applicants complain about the overly severe conditions of detention in thes e institutions, conditions which have been considered by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture to amount to inhuman treatment.
Admissible under Articles 3 and 8 (respect for private and family life).
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