THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 19002/18 Mikhail Nikolayevich SVETLOV against Russia

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 10 November 2021 as a Committee composed of:

Peeter Roosma, President, Dmitry Dedov, Andreas Zünd, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 30 March 2018,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Mikhail Nikolayevich Svetlov, was born in 1972.

The applicant’s complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention in remand prison no. IZ-47/1 in St Petersburg were communicated to the Russian Government (“the Government”).

On 28 April 2021 the Registry sent a registered letter to the applicant’s representative requesting to submit by 26 May 2021 further information in connection with his complaints. The applicant was advised that a failure to comply with the Court’s request might lead the latter to conclude that he was no longer interested in pursuing the application and to decide to strike it out of its list of cases.

On 17 May 20121 the letter reached the destination and, following an attempted delivery, was stored at the local post office for the applicant’s contact person to collect. On 17 June 2021 the post office returned the letter to the Court as uncollected. The applicant did not inform the Court about a change of the contact address.

THE LAW

The Court considers that, in these circumstances, the applicant may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue his 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 the rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require the continued examination of the cases.

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 2 December 2021.

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Viktoriya Maradudina Peeter Roosma Acting Deputy Registrar President