Romania loses prisoner ‘passive smoking’ court battle
The case concerned the applicant’s exposure to fellow prisoners’ tobacco smoke in shared cells, while being transported to court and in the waiting areas before his court appearances.
The case concerned the applicant’s exposure to fellow prisoners’ tobacco smoke in shared cells, while being transported to court and in the waiting areas before his court appearances.
The case concerned the applicants’ conviction and order to pay damages for publishing information in 2002 about the private life (contained in a court judgment) of the communications manager of Esko Aho, one of the presidential candidates during the 2000 election campaign.
In his address to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, the President proclaimed diversity as an asset to Europe and warned against the rise of hostility and social exclusion faced by ethnic and religious minorities.
The case concerned the pre-trial detention of a paraplegic man suffering from chronic pain without a functioning morphine pump which he needed for the permanent pumping of morphine into his spine.
Schokkenbroek, outlining the Council of Europe’s programme, said the meeting built on the momentum created by the organisation’s Roma summit last October.