The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published, on Monday 6 April, its first application referring to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Directed against the United Kingdom and referred to it on 24 March, the application concerns a man in his sixties suffering from asthma and diabetes who was arrested in London in 2017 and threatened with extradition to the United States, where he faces a life sentence. A threat which would constitute all the more a breach of Article 3 of the European...