Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy

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G.K. and A.S. v. Switzerland, nos. 55299/20 and 31515/22

16/07/26

Failure of the domestic authorities to provide the applicants, in pre-trial detention and in a psychiatric hospital respectively, with a fully vegan diet in accordance with their ethical beliefs and alleged lack of effective remedies in this regard.
Judgment | Legal Summary


Ottlakán v. Hungary, no. 17201/23

16/06/26

Effectiveness of a request for compensation for inhuman conditions of detention in prison lodged by the applicant, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, in the context of new legislation providing that such compensation must be set aside in a prisoner’s holding account until his or her release.
Judgment


Miliūtė and Danauskienė v. Lithuania (dec.), no. 27313/23

09/06/26

Alleged absence of an effective domestic remedy for the authorities’ refusal to provide journalists with the audio recording of a government’s consultative meeting, acknowledgment of the Supreme Administrative Court that this refusal had been unlawful and ill-founded.
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