Key legal question
Whether the detention conditions in Champ-Dollon from 16 February to 29 May 2013 violated Art. 3 ECHR and Art. 7/10 Cst.
Extracted holding
The conditions were difficult but did not reach the minimum level of severity required for inhuman or degrading treatment.
Extracted reasoning
Although there was chronic overcrowding and limited out-of-cell time, hygiene, ventilation, water, heating, food and lighting remained adequate, privacy was preserved in the cells, and the particularly cramped periods were too limited in duration to amount to a Convention breach.