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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 18:39:21+00:00

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24. The applicant alleged that the length of the proceedings relating to his second application to be released from the psychiatric hospital was in violation of Article 5 § 4 of the Convention. Article 5 provides, so far as relevant, as follows: “1. Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be deprived of his liberty save in the following cases and in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law: (a) the lawful detention of a person after conviction by a competent court; ... (e) the lawful detention of persons for the prevention of the spreading of infectious diseases, of persons of unsound mind, alcoholics or drug addicts or vagrants; ... 4. Everyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention shall be decided speedily by a court and his release ordered if the detention is not lawful.” 25. The Government contested that argument.
I. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 1 OF THE CONVENTION 52. The applicant complained that his placement in a psychiatric hospital on the basis of the court’s order of 25 October 2005 had been in violation of his rights under Article 5 of the Convention.
The applicant complained that his placement and detention in a psychiatric hospital had been in breach of his rights under Articles 3, 5 and 8 of the Convention.
The applicant complained that she had been unlawfully and unjustifiably interned in the hospital, and that the judicial decision in that regard had not been accompanied by adequate procedural safeguards. She relied on Article 5 §§ 1 (e) and 4 of the Convention.
The applicant complained that her involuntary placement in a psychiatric hospital constituted a violation of Article 5 § 1 (e) of the Convention... The applicant complained of a violation of Article 5 § 4 of the Convention in the proceedings authorising her involuntary hospitalisation.
The applicant submitted that his placement in the home of Dragash Voivoda, and then in that of Rusokastro, was contrary to Article 5 § 1 of the Convention. He also alleged numerous other violations of the Convention in relation to his placement in the two homes.
I. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 1 OF THE CONVENTION 46. The applicant complained that her compulsory placement and continued deprivation of liberty in a social care home amounted to a violation of her right to liberty, as provided for in Article 5 § 1 of the Convention, the relevant part of which reads as follows: “1. Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be deprived of his liberty save in the following cases and in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law: ... (e) the lawful detention of persons ... of unsound mind...” 47. The Government contested that argument in general terms. II. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 4 OF THE CONVENTION 72. The applicant complained, in essence, that she had no effective procedure by which she could challenge the lawfulness and the necessity of her continued stay in the social care home. She relied on Article 5 § 4 of the Convention which provides as follows: “Everyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention shall be decided speedily by a court and his release ordered if the detention is not lawful.” 73. The Government contested that argument.
II. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 1 OF THE CONVENTION 73. The applicant complained of the unlawfulness of her deprivation of liberty on 28 May 2003 when she was held at the prosecutor’s office from 9.30 a.m. until sometime in the afternoon and later confined to a psychiatric hospital, where she was held until 5 June 2003. She relied on Article 5 § 1 of the Convention, the relevant parts of which provide: “1. Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be deprived of his liberty save in the following cases and in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law: ... (b) the lawful arrest or detention of a person for non-compliance with the lawful order of a court or in order to secure the fulfilment of any obligation prescribed by law; ... (e) the lawful detention of persons for the prevention of the spreading of infectious diseases, of persons of unsound mind, alcoholics or drug addicts or vagrants.” III. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 4 OF THE CONVENTION 134. The applicant argued that her complaint against the prosecutor’s decision to order her confinement had not been reviewed by the courts. She relied on Article 5 § 4 of the Convention, which reads as follows: “Everyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention shall be decided speedily by a court and his release ordered if the detention is not lawful.” IV. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 6 §§ 1 AND 3 (c) OF THE CONVENTION 141. The applicant complained that the length of the criminal proceedings against her had been excessive, that the courts that had examined her case had failed to take her testimony, and that the decisions of the appellate courts had failed to address all the arguments that she had raised before them. She relied on Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (c) of the Convention, which, in so far as relevant, provides: “1. In the determination of ... any criminal charge against him, everyone is entitled to a fair ... hearing ... by [a] ... tribunal ... 3. Everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following minimum rights: ... (c) to defend himself in person or through legal assistance of his own choosing or, if he has not sufficient means to pay for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests of justice so require”.
The applicant alleged that his continued detention in a prison rather a psychiatric institution during the institutional measure indicated by the Zürich District Court violated Article 5 § 1 of the Convention.

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