The applicant, Ghennadii Vartic, is a Moldovan national who was born in 1973 and is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in Jilava Prison (Romania). The case concerns Mr Vartic’s complaint about not being provided with a vegetarian diet or adequate medical care in detention.
He has served his sentence in various Romanian prisons: his complaint covers his detention in Rahova Prison during two periods from April to May 1998 and from 9 to 21 February 2009. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), Mr Vartic alleges that, having contracted hepatitis C in 2004 while in prison, his related treatment with Interferon had been interrupted on three occasions in Rahova Prison and another medicine, Silimarine, had not been provided at all. Further relying on Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience, and religion), he also complains that the Rahova Prison authorities refused to provide him with a vegetarian diet as required by his Buddhist convictions.
Press release ECHR 341 (2013) 10/12/2013
Religion – Weltanschauung – Recht [ RWR ] 
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