The applicant, D.D., is a Lithuanian national who was born in 1963 and currently lives in a social care home in Kėdainiai (Lithuania). Suffering from schizophrenia, the applicant was legally incapacitated in 2000. Her adoptive father was subsequently appointed her legal guardian and, at his request, she was interned in June 2004. She was then placed in the Kėdainiai care home where she remains to date. Relying on Article 5 §§ 1 and 4 (right to liberty and security), the applicant complained about being admitted to the Kėdainiai care home without her consent and without possibility of judicial review. She also alleged that the proceedings she had brought in 2005 to reopen the proceedings concerning her guardianship as well as to have her legal guardian changed had been unfair, in breach of Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial). Further relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) she made a number of other complaints about the care home.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)