CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 19 septembre 2013

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s8229ABDD { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s9793A85B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt } .s68C46B95 { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s2D57E2E { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; text-transform:uppercase } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold }     FIFTH SECTION Application no. 1870/05 Irina Trofimovna SMIRNOVA against Ukraine lodged on 28 December 2004   The facts and complaints in this case have been summarised in the Court’s Statement of facts, which is available in HUDOC. QUESTIONS 1.     Regard being had to the applicant’s submissions concerning physical attacks and psychological harassment from co-owners of her flat and their tenants, has she been subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention (see e.g. Đorđević v. Croatia, no.   41526/10, §§ 90-93, ECHR 2012 and Valiulienė v. Lithuania, no.   33234/07, § 70, 26 March 2013)?   2.     If so, having regard to the procedural protection from inhuman or degrading treatment under Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention, did the State put in place an effective criminal law mechanism for investigating the applicant’s allegations concerning psychological and physical harassment (see e.g. Đorđević, cited above, §§ 141-150, ECHR 2012 and Valiulienė, cited above, §§ 80-87, 26 March 2013)? The parties are invited to comment, in particular, on the possibility for the applicant to pursue her private-prosecution complaint given that the public authorities instituted criminal proceedings against the co-owners of her flat in 2007 and to inform the Court about the final outcome or current status of these criminal proceedings.