Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 03/18/2014

Subject: Grand Chamber judgment in which the Court held that there had been the violation of article 3 as to the conditions of the applicant’s detention up to 17.11.2009; that there had been no violation as regards the conditions of his detention during the period subsequent to the said date; that there had been the violation of article 3 as regards his sentence to life imprisonment without any possibility of conditional release; that there had been no violation of the right to the respect for private and family life and no violation of article 7 (nulla poena sine lege)

Parties: Öcalan c. Turchia

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Justice - Art. 49 Principles of legality (nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege; lighter penalty)