Communicated on 14 May 2018
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 35530/16
Á.K. and I.K.
against Hungary
lodged on 15 June 2016
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applicants, brothers, were convicted of multiple murders and other offences to the detriment of families belonging to the Roma minority. The crimes were committed for racist motives. They serve whole life sentences without the possibility of release on parole, meaning that they cannot be considered for pardon earlier than 40 years of time served.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Have the applicants been deprived of any real prospect of release and thus potentially subjected to inhuman punishment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention, in view of the fact that they will not be eligible for release on pardon before 40 years (cf. T.P. and A.T. v. Hungary, nos. 37871/14 and 73986/14, 4 October 2016)?
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