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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12462

7 April 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 30 / 36
COUNCIL OF EUROPE / Council of europe
ECHR registers its first application referring to pandemic in prisons
Strasbourg, 06/04/2020 (Agence Europe)

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...

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