RODZEVILLO v. UKRAINE - 6128/12 (Judgment : Article 3 - Prohibition of torture : Fifth Section Committee)

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

��������� S�ofra O�Leary, President, ��������� Ganna Yudkivska, ��������� Lado Chanturia, judges, and Milan Bla�ko, Deputy Section Registrar,

The case originated in an application (no. 6128/12 ) 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, Mr Oleg Leonidovich Rodzevillo (�the applicant�), on 9 November 2011.

The applicant, who had been granted legal aid, was represented by Mr A. Kristenko, a lawyer practising in Kharkiv. The Ukrainian Government (�the Government�) were represented by their Agent, most recently Mr I. Lishchyna.

The applicant complained under Article 3 of the Convention, in particular, that the conditions of his detention in the Khmelnytskyy Pre-Trial Detention Centre and Ladyzhynska Prison no. 39 had been poor, and under Article 8 that the prison administration had �stolen� his correspondence. He also complained that he had had no effective domestic remedies in respect of those complaints.