Published on 7 June 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 19032/21 Ion VERDEÅž against the Republic of Moldova lodged on 30 March 2021 communicated on 18 May 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the applicant’s detention in inhuman and degrading conditions.

The applicant was detained in several Moldovan prisons between 2000 and 2009. On the basis of a new preventive and compensatory remedy aimed at compensating for inhuman conditions of detention, in 2019 he claimed monetary compensation. The courts established that the applicant had been detained during approximately 89 months in cells with less than 2 sq. m. of personal space per inmate, in “deplorable sanitary conditions”, with limited access to natural light. However, while finding that he had been detained in such conditions, the courts decided that he had to lodge a separate court action to claim monetary compensation.

The applicant complains of a violation of Article 3 because he was held in inhuman conditions of detention.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Did the applicant exhaust available domestic remedies in respect of his complaint about his conditions of detention? If so, has there been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention in view of the allegedly inhuman and degrading conditions of the applicant’s detention? ( Shișhanov v. The Republic of Moldova , no. 11353/06, §§ 57-60, 15 September 2015 )