Article 5 - Right to liberty and security

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Selahattin Demirtaş v. Türkiye (no. 4), no. 13609/20

08/07/25

Applicant’s renewed pre-trial detention on remand, which commenced before the Court’s Grand Chamber rendered its judgment concerning the applicant’s preceding detention, for acts related to the “6-8 October 2014 events”.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Spivak v. Ukraine, no. 21180/15

05/06/25

Compulsory psychiatric treatment of the applicant in a high-security psychiatric hospital pursuant to an order issued by a criminal court and lack of review of the lawfulness of his continued confinement.
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Martinez Fernandez v. Hungary, no. 30814/22

27/05/25

Involuntary detention and treatment of an elderly woman with dementia in a psychiatric hospital for six days.
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