CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 10 octobre 2014

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA6BC7FA7 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:right } .s9793A85B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt } .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 } .s68C46B95 { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s2D57E2E { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; text-transform:uppercase } .sD3B63DAD { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt }     Communicated on 10 October 2014   THIRD SECTION Application no. 40102/13 Constantin-Cristian CATANĂ against Romania lodged on 29 May 2013 STATEMENT OF FACTS The applicant, Mr Constantin-Cristian Catană, is a Romanian national, who was born in 1969 and lives in Piatra-Neamț. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows. On 3 December 2010 the applicant, a lawyer registered with the Neamț Bar   Association, was caught red-handed while receiving 1,000   euros from a client who denounced him for traffic of influence. On 4 November 2011 the High Court of Cassation and Justice convicted the applicant of traffic of influence and sentenced him to three   years’imprisonment. By a judgment of the Vaslui District Court delivered on 5   June   2014 the applicant was released from prison under probation. From January to May 2011 the applicant was detained in Bacău Prison. From May   2011 to September 2012 the applicant was detained in Rahova Prison. From September 2012 to an unspecified date in 2013 the applicant was detained in Botoșani Prison. Until his release from prison the applicant was detained in Vaslui Prison. The applicant complains about the alleged inhuman conditions of his detention in Bacău, Rahova and Botoșani Prisons. He mainly complains of overcrowding, limited access to natural light and electricity, no access to a fridge, lack of proper ventilation, presence of bedbugs in the cells and poor quality of food. COMPLAINT Relying on Article 3 of the Convention the applicant complains that he was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment on account of the material conditions of detention in Bacău, Rahova and Botoșani Prisons. QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Was the applicant subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention, on account of the material conditions of detention in Bacău, Rahova and Botoșani Prisons?