Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 07/14/2021

Subject: The judgments in which the Court reviews the progress since its W.D vs Belgium pilot judgment: the 5 applications related to the compulsory confinement of the applicants in the psychiatric wings of ordinary prisons. The applicants alleged that they had not received therapeutic care that was appropriate to their mental-health condition and complained of the lack of an effective remedy in order to bring about a change in their situation

Parties: Venken e altri c. Belgio

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