Information Note on the Court’s case-law 6
May 1999
Nazarenko v. Ukraine (dec.) - 39483/98
Decision 25.5.1999 [Section IV]
Article 3
Inhuman treatment
Conditions of detention of prisoners sentenced to death: admissible
[This summary also covers the following decisions of 25 May 1999: Dankevich v. Ukraine (no. 40679/98); Aliev v. Ukraine (no. 41220/98); and Khokhlich v. Ukraine (no. 41707/98).]
The applicants have all been sentenced to death and put in separate cells to await execution. They complain about the generally poor conditions of their detention on "death row", and refer in particular to restrictions on visits rights and poor hygiene.
Admissible under Article 3.
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