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

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18-01-2024

CASE OF FERREIRA CAPITÃO AND GIL CARDOSO v. PORTUGAL

Applications nos. 31519/22 and 41866/22 |   Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction)   |  Court (Fourth Section | Committee)   |   18/01/2024 | Conclusion(s): Violation de l'article 3 - Interdiction de la torture (Article 3 - Traitement dégradant) (Volet matériel) - Violation de l'article 13+3 - Droit à un recours effectif (Article 13 - Recours effectif) | Document URL: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-230308

AFFAIRE FERREIRA CAPITÃO ET GIL CARDOSO c. PORTUGAL

31519/22 41866/22   |   Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction)   |   Court (Fourth Section Committee)   |   18/01/2024 | ECLI:CE:ECHR:2024:0118JUD003151922

Document URL: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-230468

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L'HOMME

CASE OF FERREIRA CAPITÃO AND GIL CARDOSO

PORTUGAL

(Applications nos. 31519/22 and 41866/22)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

18 January 2024

This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Ferreira Capitão and Gil Cardoso v. Portugal,

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

 Faris Vehabović, President,
 Anja Seibert-Fohr,
 Anne Louise Bormann, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 14 December 2023,

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

PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in applications against Portugal lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on the various dates indicated in the appended table.
2. The applicants were represented by Mr V. Carreto, a lawyer practising in Torres Vedras.
3. The Portuguese Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the applications.

THE FACTS

4. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.
5. Relying on Article 3 of the Convention, the applicants complained of the inadequate conditions of his detention. Under Article 13 of the Convention, they also complained about the lack of an effective remedy in this respect.

(...)

FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,

1. Decides to join the applications;
2. Rejects the Government’s request to strike the applications out of its list of cases under Article 37 § 1 of the Convention on the basis of the unilateral declarations which they submitted;
3. Declaresthe complaints about the conditions of the applicants’ detention during the periods indicated in the appended table and the lack of an effective domestic remedy in that regard admissible and dismisses the remainder of application no. 31519/22 as inadmissible;
4. Holds that these applications disclose a breach of Article3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention during the periods indicated in the appended table;
5. Holds that these applications disclose a breach of Article13 of the Convention as regards the lack of an effective remedy to complain about inadequate conditions of detention;
6. Holds

(a)  that the respondent State is to pay the applicants, within three months, the amounts indicated in the appended table;

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

Done in English, and notified in writing on 18 January 2024, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.

 Viktoriya Maradudina Faris Vehabović

 Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention

(inadequate conditions of detention)

Case Details

Originating Body: Court (Fourth Section Committee)

Document Type: Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction)

Title: AFFAIRE FERREIRA CAPITÃO ET GIL CARDOSO c. PORTUGAL

App. No(s). 31519/22 - 41866/22

Importance Level 3

Represented by CARRETO V.

Respondent State(s): Portugal

Judgment Date: 18/01/2024

Conclusion(s)

Violation de l'article 3 - Interdiction de la torture (Article 3 - Traitement dégradant) (Volet matériel)

Violation de l'article 13+3 - Droit à un recours effectif (Article 13 - Recours effectif) (Article 3 - Traitement dégradant

Interdiction de la torture)

Article(s)

3

13

13+3

Separate Opinion(s) No

Keywords

(Art. 3) Prohibition of torture

(Art. 3) Degrading treatment

(Art. 13) Right to an effective remedy

(Art. 13) Effective remedy

ECLI ECLI:CE:ECHR:2024:0118JUD003151922

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