Communicated on 6 June 2017
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 12653/15
Mihail DOGOTAR
against the Republic of Moldova
lodged on 28 February 2015
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the applicant’s forced hospitalisation in a psychiatric hospital for seven days after he had slapped a member of the Government in the face. The decision to hospitalise him was based on the prosecutor’s request to verify the applicant’s fitness to be a defendant in criminal proceedings. The applicant complains of a violation Article 5 § 1 of the Convention.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Was the applicant deprived of his liberty in breach of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention (see David v. Moldova, no. 41578/05, 27 November 2007, and Gorobet v. Moldova, no. 30951/10, 11 October 2011)?
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