Published on 4 September 2023

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 26597/23 Liiban Abdirisaak AHMADI against Denmark lodged on 30 June 2023 communicated on 14 August 2023

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the applicant’s confinement from 28 December 2020 at 11.50 a.m. to 8 January 2021 at 1.10 p.m. to a restraint bed in a high security psychiatric facility ( Sikringafdelingen ). The applicant appealed against the confinement to the Psychiatric Patients’ Complaints Board, which found against him. Relying on Article 3 of the Convention, the applicant brought compensation proceedings before the courts. By a judgment of 21 November 2022, which became final on 17 May 2023, the High Court found the confinement lawful and rejected the applicant’s claim for compensation.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Was the confinement of the applicant to a restraint bed from 28 December 2020 at 11.50 a.m. to 8 January 2021 at 1.10 p.m. in breach of Article 3 of the Convention (see, inter alia , Aggerholm v. Denmark , no. 45439/18, 15 September 2020)?