Information Note on the Court’s case-law

October 2022

G.K. and A.S. v. Switzerland (communicated case) - 55299/20 and 31515/22

Article 8

Article 8-1

Respect for private life

Vegan diet refused to both a prisoner and a hospital patient: communicated

Article 9

Article 9-1

Freedom of conscience

Vegan diet refused to both a prisoner and a hospital patient: communicated

The applications concern the authorities’ refusal to provide the applicants with a fully vegan diet while they were in prison and in a hospital psychiatric unit respectively. The courts took the view that the decisions in question were not open to appeal under the law (see, most recently, the Federal Court judgments of 11 June 2020 and 9 February 2022 ).

Communicated under:

- Articles 8 and 9 of the Convention taken alone (both applications) and in conjunction with Article 14 (second application);

- Article 13 taken in conjunction with Articles 8 and 9 (both applications) and with Article 14 of the Convention (second application);

- and Article 6 of the Convention (second application).

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