Title	R.R. and others v Hungary (application no. 36037/17)
Publisher	Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
Publication Date	2 March 2021
Country	Hungary
Topics	Immigration Detention
Other Languages / Attachments	Press Release
Related Document(s)	Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of R.R. and Others v. Hungary (Application No. 36037/17) before the European Court of Human Rights
Cite as	R.R. and others v Hungary (application no. 36037/17), Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 2 March 2021, available at: https://www.refworld.org/cases,ECHR,604265c74.html [accessed 18 May 2023]
Comments	The case concerned the applicants’ confinement in the Röszke transit zone on the border with Serbia in April-August 2017. The Court found, in particular, that the lack of food provided to R.R. and the conditions of stay of the other applicants (a pregnant woman and children) had led to a violation of Article 3. It also found that that the applicants’ stay in the transit zone had amounted to a de facto deprivation of liberty and that the absence of any formal decision of the authorities and any proceedings by which the lawfulness of their detention could have been decided speedily by a court had led to violations of Article 5.
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