Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 03/12/2019

Subject: The judgment found the violation of the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatments for the lack of prospect, for those who are sentenced to life imprisonment, of release on parole or the possibility of a review of the sentence, or to lodge a claim against possible abuses or, like in the specific case, to have adequate medical assistance: the Court held that the State should reform its system of reviewing whole-life sentences

Parties: Petukhov c. Ucraina

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Solidarity - Art. 35 ING cure mediche - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal