48 X v UK, application 8324/78 unpublished 49 X v UK, application 8241/78 unpublished 50 Krocher and Moller v Switzerland, DR 34 (1982) p 54. 51 Tomasi v France A 241-A,1992 52 Chahl v. The UK, Judgement of 15/11/96, para.79 53 Ramirez Sanchez v. France, application no. 59450/00, Judgment of 27.1.05. The Ramirez case is quite unusual. Not only was he a very ‘high profile’ prisoner, but his conditions of confinement were relatively comfortable, he had frequent contact with people from outside the prison, and was in apparent good physical and mental health. In reaching it decision, the Court relied heavily on these factors and on the fact that he was later removed from solitary confinement and placed in an ordinary prison wing. 54 Mathew v the Netherlands, Judgement of 29.9.2005 55 Iorgov v. Bulgaria (2004) ECHR 113 (2005) 40 EHRR 7, ECtHR 185 par. 84 Sourcebook on solitary confinement: The decision to place prisoners and detainees in solitary confinement 37