issued by the Registrar of the Court
ECHR 125 (2018)
03.04.2018
Judgments of 3 April 2018
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing five judgments1:
one Chamber judgment is summarised below;
four Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, can
The judgment below is available only in English.
Danilczuk v. Cyprus (application no. 21318/12)
The applicant, Robert Tadeusz Danilczuk, is a Polish national who was born in 1965 and is currently
detained in Czarne Prison in Poland.
The case concerned his complaint about inadequate conditions of detention at Nicosia Central
Prisons.
In January 2011 Mr Danilczuk was convicted of a number of offences in Cyprus, including burglary,
theft, road traffic offences and unlawful residence. He was given sentences ranging from six months’
to two years’ imprisonment to run concurrently.
He spent the entire period of his detention from September 2010, when he was placed in detention
on remand, to May 2012, when he was released under a presidential decree, in three different
blocks in the prisons.
Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on
Human Rights, Mr Danilczuk complained of overcrowding, lack of adequate light, cold cells and poor
hygiene. In connection to the latter he complained in particular of difficulties in accessing the toilets
(there had been no toilets in the cells) and that when the cells had been locked, he had been forced
to urinate in a bottle and defecate in a waste bag.
Violation of Article 3 (degrading treatment)
Just satisfaction: Mr Danilczuk did not submit a claim for just satisfaction.
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Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber
judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a
panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and
deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the
Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.
Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.
Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution
