The applicant, Davit Jashi, is a Georgian national who was born in 1973 and is currently serving a prison sentence for a drug-related offence. Relying on Article 2 (right to life) and Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), he alleges that while in pre-trial detention he was not provided with appropriate medical care for his mental health, cardiac and hepatic problems. In particular, he complains that a court decision during a preparatory hearing in January 2006 ordering his admission to a psychiatric hospital for examination was not enforced. Instead he remained in prison, where he made repeated suicide attempts.
Citation: Jashi v Georgia (App no 10799/06) ECHR 8 January 2013
(citation from the official press-release prepared by the European Court of Human Rights)