Published on 16 September 2024
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 24292/24
Abdeelhadi Abbas MAKKI
against Denmark
lodged on 16 August 2024
communicated on 29 August 2024
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applicant, who suffers from schizophrenia, was placed in a high security psychiatric facility (Sikringsafdelingen), where, from 4 March 2019 to 18 October 2022, he was locked up in his patient room. The applicant complained in vain to the Psychiatric Patients’ Complaints Board.
Relying on Articles 3, 5 and 8 of the Convention, the applicant brought compensation proceedings before the courts. By a judgment of 22 November 2023, which became final on 18 April 2024, the High Court found the confinement lawful, except for the period between 2 and 25 September 2020, for which he was granted compensation.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Was the confinement of the applicant from 4 March 2019 to 18 October 2022 in a locked patient room in a psychiatric hospital in breach of Articles 3, 5 and/or 8 of the Convention (see, inter alia, Munjaz v. the United Kingdom, no. 2913/06, 17 July 2012)?