Remedy introduced for complaints about conditions of detention was effective.

The ECHR has declared inadmissible the application in the case of Manavidis v. Greece.

On 27 October 2022 Article 6A of the Prisons Code entered into force in Greece, establishing a dedicated judicial remedy in respect of detention conditions. The applicant lodged two appeals under the new remedy. The first was dismissed as unfounded in 2023, while the second was partly upheld. His case concerned the Court’s first assessment of the remedy.

The Court found that Article 6A combined both preventive and compensatory forms of redress, which operated in a complementary manner and afforded a real and practical opportunity to obtain appropriate and sufficient redress for conditions of detention incompatible with the Convention. The remedy was effective in both law and practice. The applicant had made use of that remedy which had enabled him to obtain adequate and sufficient redress. His complaint concerning the lack of an effective remedy to complain of the inadequate conditions of detention was rejected as manifestly ill-founded.

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