In its decision No. 17499/2024, adopted on 3rd July and attached here, the European Court of Human Rights has granted the request for an interim measure submitted by the lawyers of a migrant woman who has been detained for months in the Centre for Repatriation of Rome - Ponte Galeria.

The decision was taken pursuant to Rule 39 of the Rules of Court in order to prevent the risk of irreparable harm to the individual rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. Indeed, the woman was detained in the CPR of Ponte Galeria, despite her critical state of health, contrary to the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment provided for by art. 3 of the ECHR. Therefore, pending the preliminary investigation necessary to rule on the admissibility of the filed claim, the Court adopted the requested interim measure and ordered the immediate transfer of the woman to a facility suitable to her state of health and care needs. 

While expecting the case to be heard, we welcome the decision taken by the Court and acknowledge its value as a bastion for the protection of a right that is also constitutionally granted at the national stage, the right to health (article 32 of the Italian Constitution), whose guarantees in the CPR system are currently entrusted to a regulatory system that is partial and not without critical points, and which perhaps needs to be reformed.