The applicant, Peter Rohde, is a Danish national who was born in 1965. Mr Rohde was questioned by the police concerning 5.684 kg of cocaine which had been discovered on 25 October 1994 in a consignment of green papaya fruits that he had ordered from Brazil. He denied all knowledge of the cocaine, explaining that he had planned to develop a health product using the seeds. On 13 December 1994 he was arrested and charged with drug trafficking. The applicant alleged that his pre-trial detention in solitary confinement (from 14 December 1994 until 28 November 1995) was excessive and that the monitoring of his mental health while in solitary confinement was inadequate, in violation of Article 3.
Citation: Rohde v Denmark (App no 69332/01) ECHR 21 July 2005
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)