Thorough strip searches systematically carried out on a prisoner, regardless of other security arrangements in place.
Judgment

Conditions of detention pending trial (esp. twenty-three-hour confinement to the applicant’s cell), which lasted approximately one and a half years and which was ordered, inter alia, to prevent the applicant from interfering with the course of justice.
Judgment

Inadequate medical treatment provided to a former Prosecutor General and former Ambassador for his illnesses while in detention during the period between his arrest and his first transfer to a prison medical facility.
Judgment

Clear and realistic prospect of reducibility of life sentences after – but not before – new release on parole mechanism became fully operational.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Restrictions imposed on applicant’s contact with four-year-old son staying with his wife in the same prison.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Death in prison of a drug-addicted prisoner as a result of intoxication by prescribed and non-prescribed drugs.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal to allow transgender person to continue prescribed hormone therapy after transfer in new prison.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Longer period of automatic judicial review of pre-trial detention for minors than for adults prosecuted for the same category of offence.
Judgment

Segregation, restricted access to basic prison resources and denial of human contact of a prisoner by fellow inmates due to subordinate position in informal prisoner hierarchy.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Exclusion of outdoor yards attached to cells in the calculation of prisoners' personal living space.
Judgment

Consecutive enforcement of disciplinary punishments and security measures in prison resulting in protracted periods of solitary confinement.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prolonged placement of a prisoner, without clothing, in a specially secured padded cell and with lights continuously on.
Judgment

Difference in treatment in early release eligibility between prisoners serving an extended determinate prison sentence vis-à-vis standard determinate sentence prisoners and discretionary life sentence prisoners.
Judgment

Use of pepper spray against a prisoner in an observation cell without prior warning.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Withholding by prison authorities of issues of a periodical sent to prisoners by post without going through administration as required by law.
Judgment | Legal Summary

De facto irreducibility of a life sentence.
Judgment

​Segregation, humiliation and abuse of prisoners by fellow inmates on account of inferior status in informal prisoner hierarchy tolerated by prison staff.
Judgment | Legal Summary 

​Restriction on family visits with wife and daughter during pre-trial detention.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Pretinsă contractare în penitenciar a unei boli transmisibile.
Hotărâre | Rezumat juridic

Force-feeding of prisoner on hunger strike in protest against prison treatment.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Blanket ban on prisoners’ voting. 
Judgment | Legal Summary 

Prisoners denied permission to receive visits from their school-age children and to make telephone calls at the weekends.  
Judgment | Legal Summary

Conversion, upon prisoner’s transfer, of a foreign reducible life sentence into an irreducible one due to unavailability of parole for life prisoners in his home State. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Denial of permission for prisoner to attend religious services outside prison during Covid-19 pandemic.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Convicted prisoner statutorily disqualified from old-age pension payments while incarcerated. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

​General and indiscriminate ban on prisoner possession of pornographic material.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Respingerea cererii unui deținut musulman dintr-un penitenciar de maximă siguranță pentru asigurarea unui spațiu pentru rugăciunea de vineri. Aplicabilitate și fond.
Hotărâre | Rezumat juridic

Domestic remedies for complaints as to inadequate conditions of detention.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Plasare a unui deținut într-o unitate de maximă siguranță și procesul decizional.
Hotărâre

Menținere în detenție a unei persoane condamnate care are deficiențe de vedere.
Hotărâre

The uploading of prisoners’ correspondence to a judicial IT server.
Judgment

Impossibility of remand prisoners to receive conjugal visits. 
Judgment

Confiscation and destruction of a book manuscript written by a journalist in detention.
Judgment

Detention extended despite terminal condition.
Judgment

Special-needs prisoner's medical care and length of the examination of his request for a licence for prison leave on health grounds.
Judgment

Conditions of detention amid Covid-19 pandemic. Solitary confinement on medical grounds.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Detainee not allowed to have private meetings with his representatives before the Court for a prolonged period of time. Alleged technical issue concerning Rule 39: Hinder the exercise.
Judgment

Detention in an ordinary prison of a person suffering from psychiatric disorders, despite the domestic court order for his transfer to an appropriate institution.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Life prisoner’s ban on communication with other prisoners during out-of-cell activities.  
Judgment

Applicability: working prisoners and the right to join and form trade unions.  
Judgment | Legal Summary

Voting rights of detainees serving prison sentence outside the electoral constituency of their place of residence.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refuz al administrației penitenciarului de a distribui ziarele trimise prin poștă deținutului.
Hotărâre 

Additional preventive detention after having served final conviction in ordinary prison of a mentally ill serious offender.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Posibilitatea punerii în libertate a persoanelor condamnate la pedeapsa detențiunii pe viață după ce au executat 40 de ani din pedeapsă.
Hotărâre

Ban on telephone calls with family for life prisoners under strict regime. 
Judgment | Legal Summary

Conditions of detention/transport and effectiveness of new domestic remedies.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prosecution of prison officer for providing information about prison to journalist in exchange for money.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Respingerea cererilor unei persoane condamnate de a beneficia de vizite conjugale nesupravegheate.
Hotărâre

Whole life sentence subject to mandatory pardon procedure after forty years of imprisonment.
Judgment

Secret surveillance of the visitation area in prison.
Decision