Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 07/02/2020

Subject: The judgment according to which article 3 of the Convention is violated, on the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatments, in virtue of the fact that the applicants, asylum seekers, had lived out on the street in the cold weather, because of the substantial lapse in time between the applicants’ requests for asylum and the date on which their asylum applications were registered

Parties: N.H. e altri c. Francia

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments