Balsan v Romania (Appl. No 49645/09)
Briefed on: 28 May 2018
This case concerns the failure by the national authorities to adequately protect the applicant from domestic violence inflicted by her spouse in 2007 and 2008. The ECtHR found a violation of Article 3 and of Article 14 in conjunction with Article 3.
2018 Action Plan from the Romanian authorities
Case briefing notes of Ms Georghe
Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Bragadireanu v Romania group of cases (Application No 22088/04)
Briefed on: 5 March 2018
These cases concern inhuman and/or degrading treatment suffered by the applicants on account of overcrowding and poor material conditions in prisons and police detention facilities and the lack of an effective remedy in this regard; the inadequacy of the medical care provided to some of the applicants and several other dysfunctions regarding the protection of the prisoners' rights (violations of Article 3; and violation of Article 13 in the case of Marcu).
Communication from APADOR-CH on the case (2014)
Latest Action Plan by the Romanian Authorities (2018)
Judgment by the European Court of Human Rights (in French only)
Centre for Legal Resources on behalf of Valentin Campeanu v Romania (Appl. No. 47848/08)
Briefed on: 20 February 2017
The case concerns the authorities’ failure to protect the right to life of Mr. Câmpeanu, a young man of Roma origin, orphaned, HIV-positive and diagnosed with profound intellectual disability. The ECtHR found a substantial violation of Article 2 of the Convention in relation to severe shortcomings in the social and medical care afforded to the applicant before his death at the neuropsychiatric hospital.
