The plaintiff, Weheire, brought a suit against the Attorney-General alleging degrading and inhuman treatment during his arrest and detainment in 1986, a violation of his rights under the Constitution of Kenya (“Constitution”),. In December 1986, Weheire was arrested without a warrant.  After his arrest, Weheire claimed that his house was unlawfully searched. Weheire further alleged …Read more

Jamey Wilkins (hereinafter “the Plaintiff”) filed an excessive force suit against Gaddy (hereinafter “the Defendant”) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  The Plaintiff was a state prisoner in North Carolina when he had asked a correctional officer, the Defendant, for a grievance form, and the …Read more

K and 417 others were all persons convicted of diverse capital offences under the Penal Codes Act and had been sentenced to death as provided for by the laws of Uganda. They filed a petition in the Constitutional Court under Article 137(3)[1] of the Constitution, challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty. In particular, they …Read more

A Russian national filed a claim against the Russian government for violating his rights under Article 3 (inhuman and degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when he was subjected to poor conditions during his imprisonment. The applicant was arrested, convicted on criminal charges and sentenced to over 10.5 years of detention. …Read more

The plaintiff argued that the Sentence Execution Code of Latvia, Sec. 74 (2)(the “impugned regulation”) which prohibited convicted persons in solitary confinement from having walks violated his constitutional right to health.  In April 2009, the parliament had amended the impuged regulation, allowing for daily  one-hour walks, but such amendment was not set to come into …Read more

The plaintiff, Eugen Gabriel Radu, a Romanian national, applied to the European Court of Human Rights claiming that the conditions in the Romanian prison Bucarest-Jilava violated Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which prohibits torture and inhumane or degrading treatment. The plaintiff was sentenced in 2001 and again in 2006 for aggravated …Read more

This report addresses allegations that El Salvador failed to fulfill its obligations under the American Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), including protection of the right to health and the right life. Petitioner, Jorge Odir Miranda Cortez, filed a petition on behalf of himself and 26 other people living with HIV against the State of …Read more

The applicants were Russian nationals who resided in the district of Grozny in Chechnya, which was under curfew and the control of Russian federal forces. The applicants are the relatives of Arbi Karimov, the victim in this case. In the early morning of January 11th 2003, a group of armed and masked men broke into …Read more

The plaintiff, Marian Stoicescu, a Romanian national, applied to the European Court of Human Rights in 2002 alleging that the conditions in the Romanian prison Bucarest-Jilava violated Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, prohibiting torture and inhumane or degrading treatment. In 2000, the plaintiff was sentenced to 8 years in prison for …Read more

Gable Masango, a prisoner serving a twelve-year prison term in Malawi, brought suit against Malawian government officials claiming the conditions of his and his fellow prisoners’ imprisonment violated the Republic of Malawi Constitution and the Prison Regulations of the Prisons Act (“Prison Regulations”). The prisoner alleged that the prison provided insufficient resources, including insufficient diet …Read more