Ghvaladze v. Georgia

Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 100August-September 2007Ghvaladze v. Georgia - 42047/06Decision 11.9.2007 [Section II]Article 3Degrading treatmentInhuman treatmentConditions of detention of a patient who alleged lack of proper medical care – possible administrative practice: communicated After being arrested in 2005, the applicant alleged that he had been imprisoned for several months in poor conditions. In particular, prisoners had been detained in a lice‑infested cell and had to take turns to sleep for three hours out of every twenty‑four. There had been no light or ventilation system. The applicant had not been allowed any exercise. He had been diagnosed with health problems prior to his arrest and was admitted to the prison hospital on several occasions. He was subsequently detained in a closed prison, where he claimed to have been in a state of permanent starvation whic …