Published on 20 June 2022

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 51688/21 S.A. against Greece lodged on 21 October 2021 communicated on 1 June 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the living conditions and the medical treatment of the applicant, a five-year old Syrian national seeking asylum and residing with her family in Mavrovouni Reception and Identification Centre (RIC), in Lesvos Island. Pointing out to her vulnerability as a child, the applicant argues that she lives in inappropriate conditions and that she suffers from various health issues, including difficult breathing and spinal dysraphism (innate malformation of the spines), for which she had allegedly not received adequate medical care. The Court applied Rule 39 of the Rules of Court.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard to the applicant’s age and state of health, has there been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention on account of the alleged lack of medical treatment? Were the applicant’s living conditions in Mavrovouni RIC compatible with Article 3 of the Convention? (see M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece [GC], no. 30696/09, 21 January 2011; Popov v. France , nos. 39472/07 and 39474/07, 19 January 2012, and R.R. and Others v. Hungary , no. 36037/17, 2 March 2021).