CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 29 mai 2019

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .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 } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } Communicated on 29 May 2019   FIFTH SECTION Application no. 840/18 Jock Anthony PALFREEMAN against Bulgaria lodged on 22 December 2017 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the alleged ill-treatment of a foreign prisoner by prison guards in Sofia Prison on 17 October 2013. This raises an issue under the substantive limb of Article 3 of the Convention. The application also concerns the effectiveness of the ensuing investigation. This raises an issue under the procedural limb of Article 3 of the Convention. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     Did guards in Sofia Prison subject the applicant to treatment contrary to Article 3 of the Convention on 17 October 2013? In particular, did they use force with respect to him and, if so, was that force strictly necessary in the circumstances (see, mutatis mutandis , Dedovskiy and Others v. Russia , no.   7178/03, §§ 74-85, ECHR 2008 (extracts); Vladimir Georgiev v.   Bulgaria , no. 61275/00, §§ 36-37, 16 October 2008; Antipenkov v.   Russia , no. 33470/03, §§ 50-61, 15 October 2009; Rudakov v. Russia , no.   43239/04, §§ 44-56, 28 October 2010; and Gladović v. Croatia , no.   28847/08, §§ 34-38 and 51-56, 10 May 2011)?   2.     Did the ensuing investigation comply with the requirements of Article   3 of the Convention (see, mutatis mutandis , Dedovskiy and Others , cited above, §§ 87-94; Antipenkov , cited above, §§ 67-72; Rudakov , cited above, §§ 59-68; Vladimir Georgiev , cited above, § 43; and Karabet and   Others v.   Ukraine , nos. 38906/07 and 52025/07, §§ 264-96, 17 January 2013)?