FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 73944/14 Yuriy Yakovlevich STESHENKO against Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 21 October 2021 as a Committee composed of:

Lətif Hüseynov, President, Lado Chanturia, Arnfinn Bårdsen, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 19 November 2014,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Yuriy Yakovlevich Steshenko, is a Ukrainian national, who was born in 1941 and lives in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

On 15 May 2020 the applicant’s complaint under Article 3 of the Convention concerning his alleged ill-treatment in a detention facility in June 2011 and the lack of an effective investigation into the matter was communicated to the Ukrainian Government (“the Government”). On the same date the Court informed the applicant about the necessity to be represented by an advocate at that stage of the proceedings and instructed him to appoint one. The applicant’s attention was drawn to the fact that in case of his failure to appoint a lawyer, the Court might conclude that he was no longer interested in pursuing the application and might decide to strike it out of its list of cases.

In the absence of any reply, the Court sent two further reminders to the applicant by registered post. Given that it remained unclear from the postal tracking information whether the applicant had received those reminders, he was contacted by telephone. The applicant confirmed having received the Court’s letters but stated having no intention of complying with them.

THE LAW

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 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 18 November 2021.

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Viktoriya Maradudina Lətif Hüseynov Acting Deputy Registrar President