Published on 6 December 2021
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 46158/21
Lyubov Aleksandrovna GUSKOVA and Arseniy Vladimirovich KOLEVID
against Russia
lodged on 31 August 2021
communicated on 18 November 2021
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The first applicant is a mother of a two-year-old child (the second applicant). The application concerns the applicants’ involuntary placement in a clinical infectious diseases hospital on suspicion of Coronavirus infection. The placement was ordered on 8 April 2020 by the Leninskiy District Court of Kemerovo at the request of the chief sanitary doctor of Kemerovo Region. The applicants stayed at the hospital from 9 until 14 April 2020.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
Has the applicants’ involuntary hospitalisation in the period between 9 and 14 April 2020 been lawful within the meaning of Article 5 § 1 (e) of the Convention? In particular, what was the legal basis for the applicants’ involuntary hospitalisation? The parties are invited to submit to the Court references to the relevant provisions of the domestic law and judicial practice, where available.