Khuroshvili v. Greece
Court Ruling- Court
- ECtHR
- Type of violation
- (Art. 3) Prohibition of torture
- (Art. 5) Right to liberty and security
- Year of detention
- 2010
- Year
- 2013
- Detention type
- Border Guard Department; Special Holding Facility for Aliens
- Summary of case
- After his temporary residence permit expired, the applicant, a Georgian national, was detained pending deportation three times due to unlawful residence, at the then Thermi Border Guard Department (now the Thermi Immigration Management Department) and the Aspropyrgos Special Holding Facility for Alieans. He remained at Aspropyrgos for three and a half months in a space with less than three square metres, cockroach infestations, a lack of sanitary products, and restricted access to the toilet, among many other issues. Authorities rejected his asylum claim, but were unable to deport him given his lack of identification documents. While the Court did not agree with the applicant’s Article 5(1) claims, the Court found the applicant’s detention was in violation of Article 3 and Article 5(4) given the conditions of the detention centre and the lack of effective review of his detention and expulsion decision under domestic law.
- Related detention centre
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