Published on 23 May 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 18577/21 Andrei ROȘCA against the Republic of Moldova lodged on 16 March 2021 communicated on 3 May 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

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

The applicant describes the conditions of detention in Prison no. 8 in Bender as follows: overcrowding (1.5-2 sq. m. of cell space per detainee), high humidity and heavy smoke in the cell, insufficient quantity and quality of food and clean drinking water, parasitic insects, insufficient heating in the winter. His complaint based on a new preventive and compensatory remedy aimed at compensating for inhuman conditions of detention was rejected, the courts finding that the conditions of his detention were acceptable, as described in a document provided by the prison administration.

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

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

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 )?