The applicant, Sergey Kondratyev, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1962 and is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for drug dealing. Suffering from tuberculosis and a knee injury after a fall during a prison transfer, he complained about inadequate medical care during his detention, relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Further relying in particular on Article 5 §§ 1 (c) and 3 (right to liberty and security), he also complained about the unlawfulness of his detention and the fact that it lasted for about two and a half years.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)