ALEKSANDROVSKAYA v. UKRAINE - 38718/16 (Judgment : Prohibition of torture : Fifth Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� St�phanie Mourou-Vikstr�m, President, ��������� Ganna Yudkivska, ��������� Lado Chanturia, judges, and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by a Ukrainian national, Ms Alla Aleksandrovna Aleksandrovskaya (�the applicant�), on 6 July 2016;

The case concerns the applicant�s complaints: under Article 3 of the Convention that she was placed in metal cages during court hearings; under Article 5 � 1 (c) that her arrest was unlawful; and under Article 5 � 3 that her continued detention was unjustified. She also raised other complaints.

The applicant was born in 1948 and lives in Kharkiv. She was represented by Mr M. Tarakhkalo, Ms O. Chilutyan, Ms O. Protsenko (lawyers practising in Kyiv) and Mr O. Shadrin (a lawyer practising in Kharkiv).