FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 30016/18 Georgi Vasilev ARGIROV against Bulgaria

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 20 June 2019 as a Committee composed of:

Ganna Yudkivska, President, Yonko Grozev, André Potocki, judges,

and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 18 June 2018 ,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Georgi Vasilev Argirov, was born in 1989.

The applicant was represented by Mr V. Stoyanov, a lawyer practising in Pazardzhik.

The applicant ’ s complaints under Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention concerning the allegedly inadequate conditions of his detention and the alleged lack of an effective domestic remedy in that respect were communicated to the Bulgarian Government (“the Government”) .

On 14 January 2019 the Court ’ s Registry sent the applicant a letter by registered post, asking him to inform the Court whether he wished to maintain his application. The letter referred to a previous letter from the applicant ’ s representative of 27 December 2018 in which he had informed the Court of the applicant ’ s wish not to pursue his application.

The applicant ’ s attention was drawn to the terms of Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application. The applicant received this letter on 22 January 2019. No reply has been received on his part.

THE LAW

In the light of the foregoing, the Court concludes that the applicant does not wish to pursue the application within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine , the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto which require the continued examination of the application.

Accordingly, the case should be struck out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 11 July 2019 .

Liv Tigerstedt Ganna Yudkivska Acting Deputy Registrar President