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Tortura, penas ou tratamentos desumanos ou degradantes: artigo 3.º da CEDH  

Direito à liberdade e à segurança: artigo 5.º, n.º 1, e), da CEDH  

09-01-2024

(1) CASE OF MIRANDA MAGRO v. PORTUGAL | 30138/21 | Arrêt (au principal et satisfaction équitable) | Cour (Quatrième Section) | 09/01/2024 | Conclusion(s): Violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture (Article 3 - Degrading treatment Inhuman treatment) (Substantive aspect) - Violation of Article 5 - Right to liberty and security (Article 5-1 - Deprivation of liberty Article 5-1-e - Persons of unsound mind) ... | Résumé juridique | Adresse URL du document: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre?i=001-229894

(2) Convenção Europeia dos Direitos Humanos, com as modificações introduzidas pelos Protocolos nos 11 e 14, acompanhada do Protocolo adicional e dos Protocolos nos 4, 6, 7, 12 e 13.

CONVENÇÃO EUROPEIA DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS

Artigo 3.º

(Proibição da tortura)

Ninguém pode ser submetido a torturas, nem a penas ou tratamentos desumanos ou degradantes.

Artigo 5.º

(Direito à liberdade e à segurança)

1. Toda a pessoa tem direito à liberdade e segurança. Ninguém pode ser privado da sua liberdade, salvo nos casos seguintes e de acordo com o procedimento legal:

e) Se se tratar da detenção legal de uma pessoa suscetível de propagar uma doença contagiosa, de um alienado mental, de um alcoólico, de um toxicómano ou de um vagabundo; ...

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L'HOMME

FOURTH SECTION

CASE OF MIRANDA MAGRO v. PORTUGAL

(Application no. 30138/21)

 JUDGMENT

Art 3 (substantive) • Inhuman treatment • Degrading treatment • Art 5 § 1 (e) • Persons of unsound mind • Preventive detention of a mentally ill person, exempted from criminal responsibility, at a prison hospital’s psychiatric unit, in inadequate conditions and without appropriate assistance and care, pending placement in an appropriate mental health facility • Unlawful detention in violation of Art 5 § 1 (e) requirements

Art 46 • Execution of judgment • Respondent State required to take general measures to address structural nature of issues arising in context of the enforcement of preventive detention measures in prison facilities • Necessary steps to be taken as a matter of urgency to secure appropriate living conditions and the provision of suitable and individualised forms of therapy to mentally ill persons to support their possible return and integration into the community

Prepared by the Registry. Does not bind the Court

STRASBOURG

9 January 2024

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Miranda Magro v. Portugal,

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

 Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, President,
 Tim Eicke,
 Faris Vehabović,
 Armen Harutyunyan,
 Anja Seibert-Fohr,
 Ana Maria Guerra Martins,
 Sebastian Răduleţu, judges,

and Ilse Freiwirth, Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to:

the application (no. 30138/21) against the Portuguese Republic lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Portuguese national, Mr Rui Miguel Miranda Magro (“the applicant”), on 9 June 2021;

the decision to give notice to the Portuguese Government (“the Government”) of the complaints concerning Article 3 and Article 5 § 1 (e) of the Convention and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible;

the parties’ observations;

Having deliberated in private on 5 December 2023,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:

INTRODUCTION

1. The application concerns, under Articles 3 and 5 of the Convention, the applicant’s detention in the psychiatric unit of the Caxias Prison Hospital. Following his conviction on charges of criminal damage, making threats and sexual harassment he was sentenced to a preventive detention measure (medida de segurança de internamento). The applicant complained of the conditions of his detention in Caxias Prison Hospital and submitted that he should have been held in a psychiatric facility in order to have access to the requisite medical care.

THE FACTS

2. The applicant was represented by Mr V. Carreto, a lawyer practising in Torres Vedras.
3. The Portuguese Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agents, most recently Mr. Ricardo Bragança de Matos, Attorney General.
4. The facts of the case may be summarised as follows.
5. 5.The applicant was born in 1975 and lives in Évora. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2002. When he lodged his application, he was being detained in the São João de Deus Psychiatric and Mental Health Clinic at the Caxias Prison Hospital (hereinafter referred to as “the psychiatric unit of the Caxias Prison Hospital”). On 18 October 2021 he was transferred to a mental health facility (see paragraph 15 below).

 (…)

FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,

1. Declaresthe complaints under Article 3 and Article 5 § 1 (e) of the Convention admissible and the remainder of the application inadmissible;
2. Holdsthat there has been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention;
3. Holdsthat there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention;
4. Holds

   (a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicant, within three months from the date on which the judgment becomes final in accordance with Article 44 § 2 of the Convention, EUR 34,000 (thirty-four thousand euros), plus any tax that may be chargeable, in respect of non-pecuniary damage;

   (b) that from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement simple interest shall be payable on the above amount at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points;

5. Dismissesthe remainder of the applicant’s claim for just satisfaction.

Done in English, and notified in writing on 9 January 2024, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.

Ilse Freiwirth, Deputy Section Registrar

Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, President

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