62In the light of all of the foregoing considerations, the answer to the first question is that the second sentence of Article 29(2) of the Dublin III Regulation must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘imprisonment’ referred to in that provision is not applicable to the non-voluntary committal of an asylum seeker to a hospital psychiatric department, which has been authorised by a judicial decision, on the ground that that person, due to a mental illness, is a serious danger to him- or herself or to society.
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