{"id":3987,"date":"2025-01-10T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/01\/case-of-nikolayenko-v-ukraine-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:02:38","slug":"case-of-nikolayenko-v-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/01\/case-of-nikolayenko-v-ukraine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF NIKOLAYENKO v. UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on the case of Nikolayenko v. Ukraine concerning the applicant&#8217;s confinement in a metal cage during court hearings in 2019. The Court found that Ukraine violated Article 3 of the Convention (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) by placing the applicant, who was serving a life sentence, in a metal cage during four court hearings at the Desnyanskyi District Court of Chernihiv. The Court&#8217;s decision is structured around three main aspects: admissibility of the complaint, assessment of merits, and application of Article 41 regarding just satisfaction. The Court dismissed the Government&#8217;s preliminary objection about non-exhaustion of domestic remedies and found the application admissible. The key provisions of the decision are: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court reaffirmed its position that holding a person in a metal cage during trial constitutes an affront to human dignity and breaches Article 3 of the Convention, regardless of any security considerations<\/li>\n<li>The Court emphasized that using metal cages was a standard procedure in Ukraine that did not include assessment of actual and specific security risks<\/li>\n<li>Despite the applicant serving a sentence for murder, the Government failed to provide evidence of any specific security risks requiring cage confinement<\/li>\n<li>The Court awarded the applicant EUR 3,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/?i=001-238659\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on the case of Nikolayenko v. Ukraine concerning the applicant&#8217;s confinement in a metal cage during court hearings in 2019. The Court found that Ukraine violated Article 3 of the Convention (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) by placing the applicant, who was serving a life sentence,&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-3987","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\/3987","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=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}