This case concerned an Afghan minor held in Hungary’s Röszke transit zone for almost three months. He complained of inadequate living conditions, due to exposure to cold, lack of adequate guardianship, lack of medical care, and absence of age-appropriate education, and that his confinement was unlawful. The Court found that the cumulative shortcomings of the facility’s conditions and duration reached the Article 3 threshold and that the detention lacked proper legal basis and remedies. Accordingly, it found violations of Articles 3, 5(1) and 5(4) of the ECHR.
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