Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/30/2020

Subject: The judgment on the preventive application, ineffective, aiming at putting an end to inhuman and degrading detention conditions due to overcrowding: the Court recommends to the respondent State that it consider the adoption of general measures aimed at eliminating overcrowding and improving the material conditions of detention, while putting in place an effective preventive remedy

Parties: J.M.B. e altri c. Francia

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