THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 40269/18 Ruslan Georgiyevich ARUTYUNYAN against Russia and 3 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 10 March 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Peeter Roosma, President, Andreas Zünd, Mikhail Lobov, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.

The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention, were communicated to the Russian Government (“the Government”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions of the Convention.

By letters, sent by registered post on the dates as indicated in the appended table, the applicants were requested to provide information concerning further developments in their respective cases. The applicants’ attention was drawn to 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 letters were either delivered to the applicants or could not be delivered because they had been released from prisons and no other postal address or address of residence was known to the Registry. No replies or further letters from the applicants were received by the Court.

THE LAW

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.

In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications.

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

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to join the applications;

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

Done in English and notified in writing on 28 July 2022.

Viktoriya Maradudina Peeter Roosma Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention

(inadequate conditions of detention)

No.

Application no.

Date of introduction

Applicant’s name

Year of birth

Other complaints under

well-established case-law

Date of the Court’s letter sent by registered post

Date of receipt of the Court’s letter by the applicants

40269/18

10/07/2018

Ruslan Georgiyevich ARUTYUNYAN

1978Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention and in respect of poor conditions of transport

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport by train on 13/03/2018 in severely overcrowded conditions for 10 hours

10/06/2021

The registered mail form returned to the Court on 02/08/2021 signed by the colony’s official on 29/06/2021.

41802/18

20/08/2018

Sergey Mikhaylovich SHUTOV

1976

10/06/2021

The registered mail form returned to the Court on 02/08/2021 signed by the colony’s official on 25/06/2021.

57271/18

16/11/2018

Andrey Nikolayevich KOLOMEYTSEV

1982Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention

10/06/2021

According to the postal tracking information the applicant received the letter on 25/06/2021.

16594/19

11/03/2019

Oleg Vladimirovich DUGIN

1984Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention

04/10/2021

The registered mail form returned to the Court on 15/11/2021 signed by the colony’s official on 20/10/2021.