ROTH v. GERMANY

ECLIECLI:CE:ECHR:2022:0705DEC003157619
CounselN/A
Date05 July 2022
Application Number31576/19
CourtThird Section Committee (European Court of Human Rights)
Respondent StateGermany
Applied Rules6;8;8-1;8-2;35

THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 31576/19
Peter ROTH
against Germany

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 5 July 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Georgios A. Serghides, President,
Anja Seibert-Fohr,
Peeter Roosma, judges,
and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to:

the application (no. 31576/19) against the Federal Republic of Germany lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 4 June 2019 by a German national, Mr Peter Roth, who was born in 1960 and is detained in Straubing (“the applicant”);

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

1. The case concerns the applicant’s complaints mainly under Articles 8 and 6 of the Convention about the domestic authorities’ refusal to authorise him to use a computer in prison in order to draft his submissions to courts and for rehabilitation purposes.

2. The applicant has been serving a life sentence for murder since 1997. In 2017 he requested that he be allowed either to purchase a computer of his own or to use the computer room in the prison (normally reserved for vocational training) in order to write, save and print his extensive submissions to authorities and courts concerning various measures by the prison authorities. To date, the applicant has produced such correspondence on a manual typewriter, keeping carbon copies for his files. He stressed...

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