Communicated on 2 July 2019
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 28131/19
Y.S.
against Russia
lodged on 14 May 2019
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the applicant’s placement in a psychiatric facility for involuntary treatment (Article 5 § 1 of the Convention). The placement was ordered by the Megionskiy Town Court of Khanty-Mansy Autonomous Region on 17 October 2017.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Having regard to the well-established principles under Article 5 § 1 (f) of the Convention, was the applicant’s mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting compulsory confinement (see Winterwerp v. the Netherlands, 24 October 1979, § 39, Series A no. 33)?
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