Communicated on 16 April 2018
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 42819/14
Viktor Miklós KOSZTADINOVSZKI
against Hungary
lodged on 3 June 2014
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the applicant’s pre-trial detention on charges of drug trafficking and other offences, from 7 June 2012 until 5 December 2013 (approximately 1 year and 6 months). Subsequently, he was placed in home arrest which measure was still in place when he introduced the application (3 June 2014).
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Have the repeated extensions of the applicant’s pre-trial detention been in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention?
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