H.T. v. GERMANY AND GREECE - 13337/19 (Article 3 - Prohibition of torture : Fourth Section)

Art 3 (substantive) • Degrading treatment • Applicant's detention, following removal from Germany, for two months and seventeen days in a Greek police station without amenities required for prolonged periods of detention • Art 5 � 1 • Deprivation of liberty • Overall detention in Greece pending deportation, lasting for two months and twenty-three days, justified • Art   5 �   4 • No examination of the legality of the detention

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 � 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

��������� Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer , President , ��������� Tim Eicke, ��������� Faris Vehabović, ��������� Armen Harutyunyan, ��������� Anja Seibert-Fohr, ��������� Ioannis Ktistakis, ��������� Anne Louise Bormann , judges , and Andrea Tamietti, Section Registrar,

the application (no.  13337/19 ) against the Hellenic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by a Syrian national, Mr H.T. ("the applicant"), on 1 March 2019;