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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 125 (2018)   03.04.2018   Judgments of 3 April 2018   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing five judgments1:   one Chamber judgment is summarised below;   four Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, can   be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.   The judgment below is available only in English.   Danilczuk v. Cyprus (application no. 21318/12)   The applicant, Robert Tadeusz Danilczuk, is a Polish national who was born in 1965 and is currently   detained in Czarne Prison in Poland.   The case concerned his complaint about inadequate conditions of detention at Nicosia Central   Prisons.   In January 2011 Mr Danilczuk was convicted of a number of offences in Cyprus, including burglary,   theft, road traffic offences and unlawful residence. He was given sentences ranging from six months’   to two years’ imprisonment to run concurrently.   He spent the entire period of his detention from September 2010, when he was placed in detention   on remand, to May 2012, when he was released under a presidential decree, in three different   blocks in the prisons.   Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on   Human Rights, Mr Danilczuk complained of overcrowding, lack of adequate light, cold cells and poor   hygiene. In connection to the latter he complained in particular of difficulties in accessing the toilets   (there had been no toilets in the cells) and that when the cells had been locked, he had been forced   to urinate in a bottle and defecate in a waste bag.   Violation of Article 3 (degrading treatment)   Just satisfaction: Mr Danilczuk did not submit a claim for just satisfaction.   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions,   judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive   the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter   @ECHR_Press.   Press contacts   [email protected] | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber   judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a   panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and   deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the   Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.   Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.   Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Inci Ertekin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 55 30)   Patrick Lannin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 44 18)   Somi Nikol (tel: + 33 3 90 21 64 25)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member   States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   2