{"id":2061,"date":"2024-11-15T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2024\/11\/case-of-yermakov-and-others-v-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:37:01","slug":"case-of-yermakov-and-others-v-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2024\/11\/case-of-yermakov-and-others-v-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF YERMAKOV AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case concerns complaints from eight Ukrainian applicants about inadequate conditions of detention in the Kyiv Pre-Trial Detention Facility and the lack of effective remedies regarding these conditions. The Court found violations of Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention in all cases.The Court examined complaints about poor detention conditions, including severe overcrowding (2.3-3.4 square meters per person), lack of proper sanitation, insufficient access to showers, poor quality of food and water, lack of fresh air, and other deficiencies. In one case (no. 14644\/23), the Court specifically considered the applicant&#8217;s vulnerability due to mental illness.The key provisions of the decision include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognition of serious space limitations in cells as a factor sufficient to establish &#8216;degrading&#8217; conditions under Article 3<\/li>\n<li>Confirmation that Ukrainian authorities failed to provide evidence contradicting the complaints about poor detention conditions<\/li>\n<li>Finding of systematic problems with overcrowding in Kyiv Pre-Trial Detention Facility<\/li>\n<li>Award of compensation ranging from 600 to 10,000 euros to different applicants based on their specific circumstances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most significant aspects of the decision are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confirmation of previous Court positions regarding inadequate detention conditions in Ukraine (referring to Melnik v. Ukraine and Sukachov v. Ukraine cases)<\/li>\n<li>Recognition of the lack of effective remedies in the Ukrainian legal system for complaints about detention conditions<\/li>\n<li>Establishment of specific compensation amounts for different periods and conditions of detention<\/li>\n<li>Special consideration of vulnerable detainees (those with mental illness)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case concerns complaints from eight Ukrainian applicants about inadequate conditions of detention in the Kyiv Pre-Trial Detention Facility and the lack of effective remedies regarding these conditions. The Court found violations of Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention in all cases.The Court examined complaints about poor detention conditions, including severe overcrowding (2.3-3.4 square&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echr-decisions","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}