Communicated on 19 September 2019
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 65532/16
József KERTÉSZ against Hungary
and 3 other applications
(see appended table)
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES
The applications concern the applicants’ conviction to life imprisonment and the fact that their mandatory pardon proceedings can take place only after having served forty years.
Mr József Kertész was convicted by the Pécs Court of Appeal on 10 January 2014.
Mr László Tóth was convicted by the Debrecen Court of Appeal on 20 May 2015.
Mr Mihály Nagy was convicted by the Budapest Court of Appeal on 28 February 2017.
Mr Róbert Tóth was convicted by the Debrecen Court of Appeal on 20 May 2015.
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 the mandatory pardon proceedings before having served forty years of imprisonment (see T.P. and A.T. v. Hungary, nos. 37871/14 and 73986/14, 4 October 2016)?
APPENDIX
List of applications
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date of Birth
Represented by
1
65532/16
09/11/2016
József KERTÉSZ
08/02/1971
Erzsébet KADLÓT
2
17943/19
28/03/2019
László TÓTH
07/07/1987
Dániel András KARSAI
3
25908/19
07/05/2019
Mihály NAGY
17/09/1954
Dániel András KARSAI
4
25916/19
07/05/2019
Róbert TÓTH
13/06/1986
Dániel András KARSAI
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